Female college graduates earn less over the course of their careers than their husbands and male colleagues do. Claudius says the majority of the earnings gap doesn't come from women entering lower paying occupations, and it don't come from organizations paying women lower salaries for equal work. The majority of the gap comes from greedy work when firms incentivize their employes to give themselves over a hundred and ten per cent to their jobs.
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.