Work/Family Articles and Books

I assembled a list of links to mainstream media articles and popular press books to post on the class website for my Empirical Analysis of Gender Discrimination class (okay, that is not the real title of the course, but you get the idea).

Perhaps you would also be interested. This is not an exhaustive list. If you want law review articles, go to any awesome Vicki Schultz article and look up the footnotes.

Here goes!

(Keep in mind I hate Lisa Belkin's Life's Work column (which runs in the Thursday Styles!) and so her articles should be read with a grain of salt the size of a mack truck. I read the column to get the picture of how work/family issues play out in the public discourse, but beyond that, they're not of much scholarly utility.)


Mainstream Media Articles:

• Lisa Belkin, NYT, The Opt Out Revolution
• Lisa Belkin, NYT, Women Opt Back In
• Linda Hirschan, American Prospect, Homeward Bound
• Eduardo Porter, NYT, Women Are Still Working
• Lynette Clemeston, NYT, Work and Family Complicated By Race
• Lisa Belkin, NYT, The Feminine Critique: Women In the Workplace
• Ian Shapira, WaPo, Young College Grads Embrace Early Parenthood

Other Articles/Sources

• Sally Haslanger, MIT, Women in the Philosophy Academy
• 2004 Conference at Barnard College on Women, Work, and the Academy with an informative pamphlet Women, Work, and the Academy
• Moms Rising

Books

• Elizabeth Gregory, Ready: Why Women are Embracing the New Later Motherhood
• Caitlin Flanagan, To Hell With All That