Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity-事业与家庭：妇女实现平等的世纪之旅

哈佛大学的Claudia Goldin认为，在过去的一个世纪里，美国的妇女权益在工作领域取得了非凡进步。大多数人不再需要在生孩子或工作之间二选一，女性的大学入学率和毕业率也超过了男性。现今美国社会上的就业机会已经扩大到足以让许多妇女不仅仅可以获得工作机会，还能在此基础上发展属于自己的职业生涯。

书名：Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity《事业与家庭：妇女实现平等的世纪之旅》 

作者：Claudia Goldin

简介：Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics

A renowned economic historian traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at home

A 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 formed—and the barriers they faced—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.