
Career and Family
Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity
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Narrated by:
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Nancy Crane
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By:
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Claudia Goldin
Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics
This audiobook narrated by Nancy Crane traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at home.
A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college graduates than ever before, and more women want to have a career and family, yet challenges persist at work and at home. This book traces how generations of women have responded to the problem of balancing career and family as the twentieth century experienced a sea change in gender equality, revealing why true equity for dual career couples remains frustratingly out of reach. Drawing on decades of her own groundbreaking research, Claudia Goldin provides a fresh, in-depth look at the diverse experiences of college-educated women from the 1900s to today, examining the aspirations they formed—and the barriers they faced—in terms of career, job, marriage, and children. She shows how many professions are “greedy,” paying disproportionately more for long hours and weekend work, and how this perpetuates disparities between women and men. Goldin demonstrates how the era of COVID-19 has severely hindered women’s advancement, yet how the growth of remote and flexible work may be the pandemic’s silver lining. Antidiscrimination laws and unbiased managers, while valuable, are not enough. Career and Family explains why we must make fundamental changes to the way we work and how we value caregiving if we are ever to achieve gender equality and couple equity.
Claudia Goldin, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in economics, is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Her books include Women Working Longer, The Race between Education and Technology, The Defining Moment, and Understanding the Gender Gap. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Twitter @PikaGoldin
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Critic reviews
“This book is a must-read, especially for anyone balancing parenting with a career and frustrated with the disparate challenge on women in doing so. It is a powerful look at the history and data of the generations of women who have faced this challenge and the progress they made, and uses this history and data to show the way toward meaningful progress.” (Emily Oster, author of Expecting Better and Cribsheet)
Passionate writing of economics and social phenomena
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Claudia Golden has laid out the facts and history that even a wave 3 feminist didn’t fully grasp. I enjoyed every minute.
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Very intelligent reading
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Multidimensional Perspective on Gender Equity
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Enlightening
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A weakness of the book is its sole focus on college-educated women even in eras when fairly few women received college degrees. This was probably partly caused by the limited availability of data, but was also a choice by the author based on the expectation that such women had more choices. It would have been nice to hear what she could discern from the data on women who did not have college educations.
A very interesting listen
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