Q&A: Jessica Calarco on ‘how women became America’s safety net’
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Q&A: Jessica Calarco on ‘how women became America’s safety net’

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — Compared with its economic peers, the United States lacks social safety net programs like sick time, vacation time and health care. She is also the author of “Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net,” published last month. Other countries, like France, used this as a moment to completely restructure their economies, to build national permanent child care programs that allowed women to stay in the economy. is that women actually face a higher penalty for using things like remote work options than men do, because they’re assumed to be using it for child care or other types of caregiving reasons.

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Women's work: America's social safety net is built on sexist exploitation
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Women's work: America's social safety net is built on sexist exploitation

Salon  

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How Moms Became Our Social Safety Net
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How Moms Became Our Social Safety Net

Slate  

On this episode: Zak sits down with Jessica Calarco, whose new book – Holding It Together – is out tomorrow. The two walk through the ways in which women, and especially mothers, replace a social safety net in the United States… and, more importantly, why it doesn’t have to be this way. We also dole out a round of recommendations …

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