Having Good Substitutes in Pharmasis

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All we need is one really good substitute. You can pass on you're cure to some one else, and it's done almost as well as if you did it. So teams are of two types, teams of substitutes and teams of complements. If the stakes are high enough, there'll be an incentive to figure out how to create more flexibility.

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.