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Career and Family

Women's Century-Long Journey toward EquityBy Claudia GoldinNarrated by Nancy Crane

Career and Family

Length9h 26m

About this audiobook

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.

Audiobook details

GenreBusiness and Economics

Length9 hrs 26 mins

Narrated byNancy Crane

FormatAudiobook

Publish dateOct 12, 2021

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Opening Anno, Chapter 1 - The New Problem with No Name

7Chapter 7 - Assisting the Revolution

2Chapter 2 - Passing the Baton

8Chapter 8 - Mind the Gap

3Chapter 3 - A Fork in the Road

9Chapter 9 - The Case of the Lawyer and the Pharmacist

4Chapter 4 - The Bridge Group

10Chapter 10 - On Call

5Chapter 5 - At the Crossroads with Betty Friedan

11Epilogue: Journey's End--Magnified, Closing Anno

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6Chapter 6 - The Quiet Revolution

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Claudia Goldin

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