Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity — The Price of Greedy Work
What if part of the gender earnings gap is not simply a difference in pay, but the downstream consequence of how the economy rewards time?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity by Claudia Goldin as our lens, this episode investigates the century-long transformation of women’s efforts to achieve both sustained careers and family lives.
Goldin argues that many earlier barriers to women’s advancement have fallen, revealing a deeper structural problem: “greedy work.” Certain careers…
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