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Workers who have a reason to get home to care for their children or their family members are more focused, more efficient, more results-focused.
So you may think that the privileging of work over family is only an American problem.
Twenty years ago, when my family first started going to Italy, we used to luxuriate in the culture of siesta.
It's actually just as much about embracing the warmth of a family lunch.
The same-sex perspective helps us see that juggling work and family are not women's problems, they're family problems.
But I've come to believe that we have to value family every bit as much as we value work, and that we should entertain the idea that doing right by those we love will make all of us better at everything we do.
Now you can imagine looking at Jonas at only 14, that male puberty is early in this family, because he looks more like a 16-year-old.
Years ago, our ancestors would feel the pain only of their family and people in their village.
Mary Astell: If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a state, how comes it to be so in a family?
Or if in a family, why not in a state?
We secretly filmed some of the family of the former chief minister and a lawyer as they told our undercover investigator exactly how these dubious deals are done using such companies.
People should be able to pick up the phone and to call their family, people should be able to send a text message to their loved ones, people should be able to buy a book online, they should be able to travel by train, they should be able to buy an airline ticket without wondering about how these events are going to look to an agent of the government, possibly not even your government years in the future, how they're going to be misinterpreted and what they're going to think your intentions were.
She becomes the so-called honor of her father and of her brothers and of her family, and if she transgresses the code of that so-called honor, she could even be killed.
And it is also interesting that this so-called code of honor, it does not only affect the life of a girl, it also affects the life of the male members of the family.
I know a family of seven sisters and one brother, and that one brother, he has migrated to the Gulf countries, to earn a living for his seven sisters and parents, because he thinks that it will be humiliating if his seven sisters learn a skill and they go out of the home and earn some livelihood.
Ladies and gentlemen, this plight of millions of women could be changed if we think differently, if women and men think differently, if men and women in the tribal and patriarchal societies in the developing countries, if they can break a few norms of family and society, if they can abolish the discriminatory laws of the systems in their states, which go against the basic human rights of the women.
I have five sisters, and none of them could go to school, and you will be astonished, two weeks before, when I was filling out the Canadian visa form, and I was filling out the family part of the form, I could not recall the surnames of some of my sisters.
It was a doomsday for my family and for me.
As background, I was fortunate enough to grow up in a family of loving and talented artists in one of the world's great cities.
Given this rich artistic environment, you'd assume that I would have been compelled to go into the family business, but no.
Fortunately, my family also had engineers in it, and with my parents, these were my first role models.
Machine vision, special sensors, and high-performance computing can do a lot of this, but it turns out a lot is not good enough when your family is on board.
All of us are put in boxes by our family, by our religion, by our society, our moment in history, even our own bodies.
I have a mom and dad and family who accepted me for who I am.
I'm wondering what you would say, especially to parents, but in a more broad way, to friends, to family, to anyone who finds themselves encountering a child or a person who is struggling with and uncomfortable with a gender that's being assigned them, what might you say to the family members of that person to help them become good and caring and kind family members to them?
The support system, with my mom especially, and my family, that in itself is just so powerful.
And we did something very different, which is, we decided to go spend two nights and three days with a family.
And we stayed with their family, and we really, really learned what life is like in rural Tanzania.
Bringing up three children when you're the world's richest family seems like a social experiment without much prior art.
As they get older, they so know that our family belief is about responsibility, that we are in an unbelievable situation just to live in the United States and have a great education, and we have a responsibility to give back to the world.
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