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Career and Family

Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity

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Career and Family

Written by: Claudia Goldin
Narrated by: Nancy Crane
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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 20th 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.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2021 Claudia Goldin (P)2021 Princeton University Press
Business & Careers Gender Studies Sociology Career Equality
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“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)

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Fascinating

One of the best books I’ve ever listened to. Don’t let fear of Economics keep you from reading this. I managed to avoid Economics in university and had no problem following all her arguments, even without the PDF accompaniment Her explanation for female/male salary differentials is new to me and very convincing.

I would love to read her update on the post-Covid work world. Unfortunately the book ends in 2021.

.The narration was particularly clear as well.

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