Career and Family

BY CLAUDiA GOLdIN

“This book is a must-read, especially for anyone balancing parenting with a career and frustrated with the disparate challenge on women in doing so. It is a powerful look at the history and data of the generations of women who have faced this challenge and the progress they made, and uses this history and data to show the way toward meaningful progress.”―Emily Oster, author of Expecting Better and Cribsheet

“Girls do better than boys in high school, and women are more likely than men to graduate from college, yet men still earn more than women. How come? Claudia Goldin is the expert on this question, and Career and Family provides a comprehensive answer in what is the equivalent of a historical novel spanning five generations. The book is concise, thorough, and completely engaging.” ―Richard H. Thaler, coauthor of Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness

“Career and Family provides real answers to a century’s worth of questions about the drivers of gender inequality. With the rigor of an economist and the deft touch of a humanist, Goldin combines data with individual life stories, leaving no doubt that the problem lies in the nature of work rather than the nature of women. After reading this book, it is impossible to ignore the unavoidable reliance of the economy on caregiving and the necessity of society-wide solutions.” ―Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family

“Career and Family is a radical book. It is also brilliantly researched and argued.” ―New Republic

“Career and Family…looks at how women have struggled to balance work and home over the decades. Among its many takeaways is the notion that female participation in the workplace changes the very nature of work.” ―Financial Times

“This is no ordinary book…Goldin has written a chatty, readable sequel to [Betty] Friedan’s [The Feminine Mystique], destined itself to become a paperback best-seller—all the more persuasive because it is rooted in the work of hundreds of other labor economists and economic historians over the years.” ―Economic Principals