Having a Career Is Important to Me

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I haven't decided if i'm going to have children at this point. My mother was kind of a work aholock, like youas described about your mams. She worked two full time jobs growing up for a long time. So she worked many and now she's retired, but she has like four new jobs at time. And so i a little bit more balance in my adult life when i couple. I want to have a partner who lets me do whatever i want'

One way to help close the gender earnings gap? Deliberate redundancy at work, according to economic historian Claudia Goldin. Claudia expands on this idea and shares other insights about the U.S. female labor force. Emily and the Amys reflect on the career-family decisions they’ve made (or plan to make) and imagine what it would be like to have a colleague who could fill in for them whenever they needed time off.