When women were missing from the labour force, that was because they were home caring for children; when they were paid less than men, that was because they had lower education than men. A name and a voice When Betty Friedan wrote in 1963 about college-educated women who were frustrated stay-at-home mothers, she noted that their problem has “no name.” …
When I saw the news that Harvard University professor Claudia Goldin had won the Nobel Prize for economics, I was just taking my first sip of black coffee. Goldin’s work has long shown how flexibility matters to mothers’ earning power. We know from her research that what we now call ‘remote work’ has long been a key part of women’s …
