Our mothers were work cholics. My mother is and was too. And so much of the work in my mother's business and in advertising took place outside of office hours. If you aren't willing to do them, you're not going to move forward,. Can we pause on the greedy work thing for one moment? Ye, it's the employer who's greedy, right? Who want as much time as possible from the employee. It's also just society igreedy, of like trying to take as much out of us, like extravagant life atdy. Exactly. I think that'll rarely say totally.
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.