How Subutable Do You Feel With Creative Careers?

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In creative careers, i feel so close to the work that like, i could be substituteable, but it wouldn't be my work. Ritso in the process, it has occurred to me that the less the work that i oversee bears my thumb print, the more substitutable i am. There are 15 people on staff who could take my job and do, and do great at it right now. But i don't like to. O, no, that myheidono.

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.