Alison Wolf on Women, Inequality and the XX Factor

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🗓️ 29 February 2016

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Alison Wolf author of The XX Factor, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the changing roles of women in the family and the workplace. Wolf argues that highly educated women are increasingly similar to highly educated men in their lifestyles and choices while becoming very different from less educated women. Wolf traces the origins of these changes and the interaction between economic and cultural factors affecting men, women, the family, and the workplace.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:09.2	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:13.7	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:18.7	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:21.7	You'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done
0:25.8	going back to 2006.
0:28.4	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:30.6	We'd love to hear from you.
0:34.4	Today is February 5th, 2016, and my guest is Allison Wolf, the Sir Roy Griffiths Professor
0:41.0	of Public Sector Management at King's College, London.
0:44.2	She is the author of the Double X Factor, How the Rise of Working Women has created a far
0:49.4	less equal world.
0:51.3	And she's a Baroness and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Allison.
0:55.1	Welcome to Econ Talk.
0:56.9	Thank you very much for inviting me to talk to you.
0:59.5	I want to give a heads up to parents who might be listening with young children.
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1:13.8	Now, I'll send your book as an eye-opening look at inequality and gender, and I want to
1:18.3	start with a quote.
1:19.6	You say the following.
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