Economics & Finance

Career and Family: Women鈥檚 Century-Long Journey toward Equity

    Narrator
  • Nancy Crane

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics

This audiobook narrated by Nancy Crane traces women鈥檚 journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at home



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Published:
Oct 12, 2021
Copyright:
2021
Illus:
22 b/w illus. 1 table.
Runtime:
9 hours 26 minutes

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鈥攁nd the barriers they faced鈥攊n terms of career, job, marriage, and children. She shows how many professions are 鈥済reedy,鈥� 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鈥檚 advancement, yet how the growth of remote and flexible work may be the pandemic鈥檚 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.

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Awards and Recognition

  • An Economist Book of the Year
  • A Behavioral Scientist's Notable Book
  • A Wall Street Journal Favorite Political Book of the Year
  • A FiveBooks Best Nonfiction Books of the Year
  • Winner of the Richard A. Lester Book Award, Industrial Relations Section Industrial Relations Section
  • A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year