Do You Want to Do Greedy Work?

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"I never even thought of something called greedy work until i read claudia's books," she says. "i wanted to be able to drop everything to go help my mam if she needed it." She was working a hundred hours a week in her first job, partly because there was a lot of work to do and partly because she didn't know when to stop. 'It never occurred to me that i wouldn't have to work very, very hard to move ahead'

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.