For women, having a career or family is in service of other people. What's missing in the fulfilment model is serving yourself. We do make up all these narratives about our careers and families. But i think ultimately we're not talking about the filment of our own growth.
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.