[100 Challenge] DanJi’s reading note_71

Career & Family
Women’s century-long journey toward equity
Claudia Goldin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 12 OCT, 2021

We need to change the way labor is structured. We need to make flexible jobs more and more productive.
Group 1: Home or career (1878~)
Half have no children. One-third are not married. They have achieved either a family or a career. Successful women in this era did not marry or give birth: Edith Abbott, Grace Coyle, Helen Keller, and more.
Group 2: Job, then Home (1898~)
They got married relatively late and had children, if late. In this era, teachers were fired for getting married. Nobel Prize winner Barbara McClintock did not get married. Anita Randi and Mildreid Esden fought the system, and most of the eviction systems in public schools were eliminated.
Group 3: Home, then jobs (1924~)
Most were married early, had children, and had similar college subjects and work jobs. Author Toni Morrison became the editor of Random House after their divorce and wrote novels.
Group 4: Career, then Home (1944~)
I chose the process of becoming an intellectual aiming for higher value. I delayed giving birth to a family to become a highly educated and skilled workforce.