If We Want Equity, Work Needs to Be Less Greedy

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

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🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0	Harvard Business School Executive Education develops leaders who make a
0:04.5	difference in the world. In their programs, experience the power of fresh
0:09.4	perspectives and connect with the world of new ideas. Learn more at hbs.me slash
0:16.2	work. That's hbs.me slash work.
0:21.0	Amy, you seem to always be reading a book.
0:25.7	Yeah, let's see. I recently finished Hamnet, which I love.
0:30.4	Me too. So good.
0:32.2	So good. And I'm reading the love songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, which I'm also loving.
0:39.0	He's also a very talented designer, if you didn't know.
0:41.6	Did not know that. And at the same time, I'm reading this new book about the real
0:46.4	housewives, which is unputdownable.
0:50.6	You're you're reading the full gamut of literature. I love it.
0:55.9	I also know you fit in some economic history recently. You read Claudette Golden's
1:00.5	career and family. I sure did. It's a very informative 20th century US
1:07.5	history. And it really deepened my understanding of the different and
1:12.8	difficult trade-offs that women have had to make and continue to have to make
1:18.3	just because we want to work or do more in life than just work for many
1:24.7	women that more has been marriage, motherhood, or the classic combo both.
1:30.9	But during most of the last century, discriminatory laws and hiring policies
1:35.7	plus stricter gender norms left women who wanted more with limited employment
1:40.6	options. Since then, laws and policies have advanced and norms have loosened.
1:46.9	Women today can sustain two time consuming undertakings, career and family,
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