Has the Movement for Women's Equality Hit a Wall?
To the Point with Warren Olney, Public Radio International, 2/22/2013
Fifty years ago, Betty Friedan jump-started the Women's Movement, and the number of women joining the workforce increased for the next 30 years. But toward the end of the 90's, that number began to decline, partly because workplace requirements increased without becoming more flexible. Now, among industrial nations, the US is dead last in accommodating families with mothers and fathers who both want to work. Is this why America's birthrate is going down? Is it time for workplace practices to catch up with worker's ideals? Elizabeth Marquardt, Stephanie Coontz, and others discuss.