Women, career and family: A conversation with Claudia Goldin

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🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Caregiving responsibilities for women have drastically increased since the start of the pandemic. And with new demands at home and at work, many women have struggled to find a balance between work and family. On today's show, economist Claudia Goldin joins us to talk about that and other issues in her new book, "Career and Family: Women's Century Long Journey Towards Equity."

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0:36.2	Claudio Golden is one of the most famous economists in the world.
0:40.2	She's a professor at Harvard and she has done a lot of groundbreaking work on all kinds
0:44.1	of issues, especially related to women and work.
0:48.4	In her new book, Career and Family Women's Century Long Journey Towards Equality, Claudio
0:53.1	looks at the evolution of the roles of work and family care in the lives of American women,
0:58.3	including the impact that COVID has had on women, work, and child care.
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