"I feel like the perspective that you bring is not the prospective," she says. "There's aspects of my job that are completely fundablin and there's evidence of that, because i will take some leave occasionally to work on my book or whatever" She wants her authors to say they miss me; it's amazing we've built our economy on this yes.
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.