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Tele-Interview with Linda Hirshman
June 8, 2007

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Why, forty years after The Feminine Mystique do men and women still assign the physical, repetitious – and unremunerated – jobs of housekeeping and childrearing almost entirely to women? What is the loss to society when it’s most accomplished women or the ones with the potential to be so, flee their jobs to mind the kids? What is keeping all women from having equal access to the rewarding adult world that men live in? Starting with the trend of educated women abandoning their careers to raise children, Hirshman shows that the real glass ceiling barring women from success in the workplace is in their own homes.

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Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World
By: Linda Hirshman
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Year: 2006

Jean's Review:
Former attorney and retired philosophy professor Linda Hirshman set out to write a book about working moms. She found they were staying home instead. In a December 2005 article she published in the American Prospect, Hirshman called that a mistake. She went on the say that housekeeping and child rearing were tasks not worthy of the full time and talents of intelligent and educated humans. They do not require a great intellect, they are not honored and they do not involve risks and the rewards that risk brings. Further, where were the dads when all this household labor was being distributed? Maybe the thickest glass ceiling, she wrote, is at home. Shortly thereafter Hirshman found herself smack in the middle of the Mommy Wars and the subject of a web article called “Everyone Hates Linda.” She did write a book, just not the one she thought she was going to write. Using statistical research and convincing anecdotal evidence, she challenges the politically correct assertion-as well as the moral, value and economic judgements inherent therein-that children, and ultimately society, benefit when mom stays at home. Even if you don’t agree with her, Hirshman adds intelligent and much-needed dialogue to an important and emotional debate. To view the article “Homeward Bound”: http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=10659

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