The perfect last-minute gift Shop credit bundles
Career and Family by Claudia Goldin
  Send as gift   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account
Illustration of person opening a gift

The perfect last-minute gift

Audiobook credit bundles can be delivered instantly, given worldwide, and support local bookstores!

Start gifting
Phone showing make the switch message

Limited-time offer

Get two free audiobooks!

Nowโ€™s a great time to shop indie. When you start a new one credit per month membership supporting local bookstores with promo code SWITCH, weโ€™ll give you two bonus audiobook credits at sign-up.

Sign up today

Career and Family

Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity

$20.95

Get for $14.99 with membership
Narrator Nancy Crane

This audiobook uses AI narration.

Weโ€™re taking steps to make sure AI narration is transparent.

Learn more
Length 9 hours 26 minutes
Language English
  Send as gift   Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

      Log in       Create account

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in EconomicsThis audiobook narrated by Nancy Crane traces women's journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at homeA century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college graduates than ever before, and more women want to have a career and family, yet challenges persist at work and at home. This book traces how generations of women have responded to the problem of balancing career and family as the twentieth century experienced a sea change in gender equality, revealing why true equity for dual career couples remains frustratingly out of reach.Drawing on decades of her own groundbreaking research, Claudia Goldin provides a fresh, in-depth look at the diverse experiences of college-educated women from the 1900s to today, examining the aspirations they formedโ€”and the barriers they facedโ€”in terms of career, job, marriage, and children. She shows how many professions are "greedy," paying disproportionately more for long hours and weekend work, and how this perpetuates disparities between women and men. Goldin demonstrates how the era of COVID-19 has severely hindered women's advancement, yet how the growth of remote and flexible work may be the pandemic's silver lining.Antidiscrimination laws and unbiased managers, while valuable, are not enough. Career and Family explains why we must make fundamental changes to the way we work and how we value caregiving if we are ever to achieve gender equality and couple equity.

Claudia Goldin, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in economics, is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Her books include Women Working Longer, The Race between Education and Technology, The Defining Moment, and Understanding the Gender Gap. Nancy Crane is a London-based American actor whose television credits include The Crown and Avenue 5 and who has appeared in Olivier-winning West End productions of Tennessee Williams's Summer and Smoke and Lucy Kirkwood's Chimerica. She is the narrator of The Sacred Andean Codes by Marcela Lobos, among other audiobooks.

Claudia Goldin, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in economics, is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Her books include Women Working Longer, The Race between Education and Technology, The Defining Moment, and Understanding the Gender Gap. Nancy Crane is a London-based American actor whose television credits include The Crown and Avenue 5 and who has appeared in Olivier-winning West End productions of Tennessee Williams's Summer and Smoke and Lucy Kirkwood's Chimerica. She is the narrator of The Sacred Andean Codes by Marcela Lobos, among other audiobooks.

Featured in these playlists...

Audiobook details

Author:

Narrator:
Nancy Crane

ISBN:
9780691234809

Length:
9 hours 26 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Princeton University Press

Publication date:

Edition:
Unabridged

PDF extra:
Available

Libro.fm rank:
#42,728 Overall

Genre rank:
#1,693 in Business

Illustration of person opening a gift

The perfect last-minute gift

Audiobook credit bundles can be delivered instantly, given worldwide, and support local bookstores!

Start gifting
Phone showing make the switch message

Limited-time offer

Get two free audiobooks!

Nowโ€™s a great time to shop indie. When you start a new one credit per month membership supporting local bookstores with promo code SWITCH, weโ€™ll give you two bonus audiobook credits at sign-up.

Sign up today

Reviews

"An Economist Book of the Year" "A Wall Street Journal Favorite Political Book of the Year" "A FiveBooks Best Nonfiction Books of the Year" "A Behavioral Scientist's Notable Book" "Winner of the Richard A. Lester Book Award, Industrial Relations Section Industrial Relations Section" Expand reviews
The perfect last-minute gift Shop credit bundles