All In: How Our Work-First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses--And How We Can Fix It Together

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HarperCollins, May 12, 2015 - Family & Relationships - 272 pages

When journalist Josh Levs was denied fair parental leave by his employer after his child was born, he fought back—and won. Since then, he’s become an advocate for modern families and working fathers. In All In, he explores the changing face of fatherhood and what it means for our individual lives, families, workplaces, and society.

Fatherhood today is far different from previous generations. Stay-at-home dads are increasingly common, and growing numbers of men are working part-time or flextime schedules to spend more time with their children.  Even the traditional breadwinner-dad is being transformed. Dads today are more emotionally and physically involved on the home front. They are “all in” and—like mothers—they are struggling with work-life balance and doing it all.

Journalist and “dad columnist” Josh Levs explains that despite these unprecedented changes, our laws, corporate policies, and gender-based expectations in the workplace remain rigid. They are preventing both women and men from living out the equality we believe in—and hurting businesses in the process. Women have done a great job of speaking out about this, Levs—whose fight for parental leave made front page news across the country—argues. It’s now time for men to join in.

Combining Levs’ personal experiences with investigative reporting and frank conversations with fathers about everything from work life to money to sex, All In busts popular myths, lays out facts, uncovers the forces holding all of us back, and shows how we can all join together to change them.

 

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Dedication
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A Mens and Womens Right
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Good for Business
1908
The Stigma That Makes Men Give Up Billions
1916
Male Privilege Female Gatekeeping and the Bonus Temptation
1924
Rise
1930
How a Bus Could Solve a Parenting Crisis
1939
The Doofus Dad Obsession Must
1947
How Black Dads Are Doing Best of All But Theres Still a Crisis
1962
Dads in Prison Open
1969
Courts Custody and Deadbeat Parents
1975
The Truth About Parents and
1984
Body
1992
Spirit
2000
The Value of Less
2004
About the Author
2020

Media and the Fear of
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Josh Levs, father of three, has spent years reporting for CNN on air and online and serving as the network's "dad columnist." Prior to CNN, he was a reporter for NPR. His many prizes include six Peabody Awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards, and a designation as a Journalist of the Year from the Atlanta Press Club. Levs is also a motivational and keynote speaker. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife and children.

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