"We Did It!"

According to this Economist article, women are set to make up over 50% of the U.S. workforce in the next few months.

Highlights from the article:

• "Motherhood, not sexism, is the issue: in America, childless women earn almost as much as men, but mothers earn significantly less."

• "In America three out of four people thrown out of work since the “mancession” began have been male."

• "And, without going to Scandinavian lengths, America could invest more in its children: it spends a lower share of its GDP on public child-care than almost any other rich country, and is the only rich country that refuses to provide mothers with paid maternity leave. Barack Obama needs to measure up to his campaign rhetoric about “real family values”."

To read the entire article, click here.

If you're interested in reading more on the "Mommy Wars" and the "opting out" phenomenon, try Pamela Stone's book Opting Out?: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home. (If you need extra convincing, Stone was a Duke grad!)