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Pamela Kruger is a writer and editor specializing in covering business, parenting, and women's issues. Her essays, book reviews, profiles, and other stories have been published in Fast Company, The New York Times, Child, Good Housekeeping, Parenting, Reader's Digest, Oxygen Media, The Huffington Post, and many other publications.
A sampling of her work is below.
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Affirmative Action--for Men
Whenever I hear someone bemoaning how hard it is these days to get into Harvard or Yale, I tune out. Read more » |
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The Wage Gap and The Supreme Court: Business as Usual
Every week, it seems like my box is flooded with urgent emails exhorting me to sign a petition, attend a rally, or call my senator about Iraq, Darfur, global warming, gay marriage, or any number of worthy causes. But I'm not expecting to get many invites to protest yesterday's Supreme Court decision, which severely limited workers' ability to sue for pay discrimination. Read more » |
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Working from Home: Myth vs. Reality
Often when other mothers hear that I work from home, they'll say, "You're so lucky" or "I wish I could do that." Read more » |
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Co-Parenting: The Fair Family Solution
Rebecca and Rob D'Amico always figured that when they had kids, Rebecca would quit her job and stay home. But by the time she became pregnant in late 2000, the Austin, TX couple realized they couldn't live on one salary. Read more » |
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Why Aren't There More Women at the Top?
Why can't a woman be more like a man? Two new career books about women and the world of work offer up tired advice that was old when it was new -- 20 years ago. A third offers a more thoughtful analysis. Read more » |
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Betrayed by Work
Week after week, psychologist Ilene Philipson listened to her patient, convinced that the woman was hiding something. Read more » |
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Adoption Diaries
Adopting a child is such a powerful, emotional experience that it's hard for parents to put it into words. But we got four families, who adopted in different ways, to tell us what it's like. Read more » |
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New York Magazine Misses the Point on Adoption
I came home after a two-week vacation to discover that New York Magazine had anointed me--or more to the point, my family--hip and trendy. Read more » |
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Allergy Nation
It was only two months after Daniel Clowes started half-day kindergarten at a Pennsylvania public school, and already some parents of his classmates were grumbling about his family. Read more » |
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The Motherhood Debate
Back in the 1980s, I remember confidently discussing with friends how we had more options than our mothers did. Read more » |
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Secrets of a Supernanny
By now, most parents have heard of Supernanny, the reality-TV show in which a British nanny teaches naughty children (and their often clueless parents) how to behave. Read more » |
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Adopting From Abroad
The December afternoon was brutally cold in Ust Kamenogorsk, a remote city in Kazakhstan, a former republic of the Soviet Union, and my husband and I were frantic with worry about Annie, a 6-month-old baby we had just met and planned to adopt. Read more » |
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After the Election
The day after the election, I got a frantic phone call from the mother of one of my daughter's friends. "I just need to talk to another Democrat," she said, before dropping the bombshell. "Did you know that A.'s mother and N.'s mother both voted for George Bush?" Read more » |
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Going Rural
A few pictures hanging in a conference room persuaded Ken Parker to change his life. Read more » |
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The New Face of Adoption
As more parents with biological children adopt, they're changing the way we define family. Read more » |
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