" equity is a decision. Your generation needs to have the opportunity to make the decisions," she says. "i'm not going to say they've got easier, necessarily, but they're different." She adds that it's just that it takes time for those decisions to play out.
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.