Unfinished Business (29 page)

“Why Women's Economic Security Matters”
Transcript, “Why Women's Economic Security Matters for All,” Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C., September 18, 2014,
cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/​uploads/2014/​09/09.18.14-​CAP-Womens-Economic-Security-​transcript.pdf
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Walmart, Jamba Juice
Jenny Brown, “Enough with the Just In Time Schedules, Say Retail Workers,”
Labor Notes
, November 19, 2012,
labornotes.org/2012/11/​enough-​just-time-schedules-say-​retail-workers#sthash.s​FnhjWIq.dpuf
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“Hotel housekeepers”
Susan J. Lambert, “When Flexibility Hurts,”
New York Times
, September 20, 2012,
nytimes.com/2012/09/20/​opinion/​low-paid-women-want-​predictable-hours-and-steady-pay.html
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She and her son lost two homes
Jodi Kantor, “Working Anything but 9 to 5,”
New York Times
, August 13, 2014,
nytimes.com/​interactive/2014/08/13/​us/​starbucks-workers-​scheduling-hours.html
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The day after Kantor's article
Jodi Kantor, “Starbucks to Revise Policies to End Irregular Schedules for Its 130,000 Baristas,”
New York Times
, August 14, 2014,
nytimes.com/2014/08/15/​us/​starbucks-to-revise-work-​scheduling-policies.html
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“Mr. Darman sometimes managed”
Maureen Dowd, “Campaign Profile; A Primer: How the White House Budget Czar Not Only Survives, but Thrives,”
New York Times
, September 22, 1992,
nytimes.com/1992/09/22/​us/​1992-campaign-campaign-​profile-primer-white-house-budget-​czar-not-only-survives.html
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Virginia Rometty
Andrew Nusca, “IBM's Rometty: ‘Growth and Comfort Don't Coexist,' ”
Fortune
, October 7, 2014,
fortune.com/2014/10/07/​ibms-rometty-growth-​and-comfort-dont-coexist
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“I was lying on the floor”
Arianna Huffington,
Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
(New York: Harmony Books, 2014), p. 1.

The moral of the ad
“The First Ever 2014 Cadillac ELR: Poolside,” YouTube video, posted by Cadillac, February 7, 2014,
youtube.com/​watch?v=qGJSI48gkFc
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“You know what really needs attention?”
Brigid Schulte, “5 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Work Too Hard,”
Washington Post
, February 21, 2014,
washingtonpost.com/​blogs/​she-the-people/​wp/2014/02/21/​5-things-you-get-from-​working-too-hard/?tid=pm_pop
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Cadillac was disparaging
Diana T. Kurylko, “Mercedes Beats BMW in Luxury Race,”
Automotive News
, January 6, 2014,
autonews.com/​article/20140106/​RETAIL01/301069959/​mercedes-beats-​bmw-in-luxury-race
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Last I checked
Rebecca Ray, Milla Sanes, and John Schmitt, “No Vacation Nation Revisited,” Center for Economic Policy, May 2013,
cepr.net/​documents/​publications/​no-vacation-​update-2013-05.pdf
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led Henry Ford to establish
Robert Asher and Ronald Edsforth, with Stephen Merlino, eds.,
Autowork
(Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995), p. 156.

After he cut hours
Schulte,
Overwhelmed
, p. 161.

Futurist Sara Robinson
Ibid., p. 162.

we should change the rhythm
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (New York: HarperCollins, 1996), pp. 129–30.

Without play
Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown,
A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change
(Scott's Valley, AZ: Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2011), eBook, loc. 1370–89.

Timothy Keller
Timothy Keller,
Every Good Endeavor
(New York: Dutton, 2012), p. 41.

Americans think about leisure
Ibid., p. 42.

“simply contemplate”
Ibid., p. 41. I owe these insights to Anand Giriharadas, “Keeping One's Work in Perspective,”
New York Times
, December 29, 2012,
nytimes.com/2012/12/29/​us/29iht-currents29.html
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World Happiness Report
John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard, and
Jeffrey Sachs, eds.,
World Happiness Report 2015
(New York: United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, 2015),
worldhappiness.report/​ed/2015
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“As soon as that baby's lips”
“Paul Tudor Jones Comments on the Lack of Female Traders,”
Washington Post
, May 23, 2013,
washingtonpost.com/​local/​education/​paul-tudor-jones-comments-on-the-lack-of-female-traders-during-u-va-event/2013/05/07/871a3fc4-b723-11e2-aa9e-a02b765ff0ea_story.html
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women spoke up for his overall character
Michelle Celarier, “Hedge Fund Women Not Bashing Paul Tudor Jones for Saying Having Babies Makes Women Lousy Traders,”
New York Post
, May 25, 2013,
nypost.com/2013/05/25/​hedge-fund-women-​not-bashing-paul-tudor-jones-​for-saying-having-babies-makes-​women-lousy-traders
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others said they were grateful
Jacki Zehner, “Can Mothers Be Traders?,” LinkedIn Post, May 25, 2013,
linkedin.com/​today/​post/​article/20130525134605-​25295057-can-mothers-be-traders
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Moreover, Jones explained
“Paul Tudor Jones Comments on the Lack of Female Traders.”

Here Jones is simply wrong
Brad M. Barber and Terrence Odean, “Boys Will Be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence and Common Stock Investment,”
Quarterly Journal of Economics
16, no. 1 (2001): 261–92; Meredith Jones, “Women in Alternative Investments: A Marathon, Not a Sprint,” Rothstein Kass, December 2013,
kpmg-institutes.com/​content/​dam/​kpmg/​kpmginstitutes/​pdf/2014/​women-in-​alternative-investments.pdf
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in a book entitled
Scarcity
Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir,
Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives
(New York: Henry Holt, 2013).

Financial expert and neuroscientist John Coates
John Coates,
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust
(New York: Penguin Press, 2012).

“their call on the market”
Ibid., pp. 273–74.

“If you've lived a life”
Joan C. Williams, “Why Men Work So Many Hours,”
Harvard Business Review
, May 29, 2013,
blogs.hbr.org/​cs/2013/05/​why_men_work_so​_many_hours.html
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the “sticky floor”
Barbara Presley Noble, “At Work: And Now the ‘Sticky Floor,' ”
New York Times
, November 22, 1992,
nytimes.com/1992/11/22/​business/​at-work-and-now-​the-sticky-floor.html
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But the growing numbers of talented women
Judith Warner,
Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
(New York: Riverhead Books, 2005).

Women hold less than 15 percent
“Statistical Overview of Women in the Workplace,” Catalyst, March 3, 2014,
catalyst.org/​knowledge/​statistical-​overview-women-workplace
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Almost two-thirds
Maria Shriver and Olivia Morgan,
The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); Laryssa Mykyta and Trudi J. Renwick, “Changes in Poverty Measurement: An Examination of the Research SPM and Its Effects by Gender,” U.S. Census Bureau Working Paper, January 2013; Suzanne M. Bianchi, “Feminization and Juvenilization of Poverty: Trends, Relative Risks, Causes, and Consequences,”
Annual Review of Sociology
25 (1999): 307–33; Sara McLanahan and Erin Kelly, “The Feminization of Poverty: Past and Future,” in
Handbook of the Sociology of Gender
(New York: Plenum Publishing Corp., 1999), pp. 127–45; Diane Pearce, “The Feminization of Poverty: Women Work and Welfare,”
Urban & Social Change Review
11, nos. 1–2 (1978): 28–36.

“Elite or poor”
Alison Wolf,
The XX Factor: How the Rise of Working Women Has Created a Far Less Equal World
(New York: Crown Publishers, 2013), eBook, pp. 17–18.

“along with language”
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, “The Past, Present and Future of the Human Family,” Tanner Lectures on Human Values, delivered at the University of Utah, February 27 and 28, 2001,
tannerlectures.utah.edu/_documents/​a-to-z/​h/​Hrdy_02.pdf
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“It was like all of a sudden”
Pamela Stone,
Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), p. 145.

Half of single moms
“Single Motherhood in the United States—A Snapshot,” Legal Momentum, Women's Legal Defense
and Education Fund, 2012,
legalmomentum.org/​sites/​default/​files/​reports/​single-mothers-​snapshot_0.pdf
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American single parents
Timothy Casey and Laurie Maldonado, “Worst Off—Single Parent Families in the United States: A Cross-National Comparison of Single Parenthood in the U.S. and 16 Other High Income Countries,” Legal Momentum, Women's Legal Defense and Education Fund, December 2012,
legalmomentum.org/​sites/​default/​files/​reports/​worst-off-single-parent.pdf
; Matt Bruenig, “The Poorest Norwegian Children Are Twice as Rich as the Poorest American Children,” Demos: An Equal Say and An Equal Chance for All, January 12, 2015,
demos.org/​blog/1/12/15/​poorest-norwegian-children-​are-twice-rich-poorest-​american-children
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Ranie Sherr
Terrie Morgan-Besecker, “Minimum Wage Earners Struggle to Survive,”
Times-Tribune
, December 22, 2013,
thetimes-tribune.com/​news/​minimum-wage-​earners-struggle-to-survive-1.1605234
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María, a single mom in Providence
Ajay Chaudry, Juan Pedroza, and Heather Sandstrom, “How Employment Constraints Affect Low-Income Working Parents' Child Care Decisions,” Urban Institute, Brief 23, February 2012,
urban.org/​UploadedPDF/412513-How-Employment-​Constraints-Affect-Low-Income-Working-​Parents-Child-Care-Decisions.pdf
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the entire reform of U.S. welfare programs
“1996 Welfare Amendments,” Social Security History,
ssa.gov/​history/​tally1996.html
; Mary B. Larner, Donna L. Terman, and Richard E. Behrman, “Welfare to Work: Analysis and Recommendations,”
The Future of Children
7, no. 1 (Spring 1997),
futureofchildren.org/​futureofchildren/​publications/​docs/07_01_Analysis.pdf
; Mary Daly and Joyce Kwok, “Did Welfare Reform Work for Everyone? A Look at Young Single Mothers,” Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Letter, August 3, 2009,
frbsf.org/economic-research/​publications/​economic-letter/2009/​august/​welfare-reform-single-mothers
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The result is that a mother with dependent children
Joan Entmacher, Katherine Gallagher Robbins, Julie Voghtman, and
Lauren Frohlich, “Insecure & Unequal: Poverty and Income Among Women and Families 2000–2012,” National Women's Law Center, September 2013,
nwlc.org/​sites/​default/​files/​pdfs/​final_2013_nwlc_povertyreport.pdf
; Casey and Maldonado, “Worst Off.”

Gayle Pritchard
Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi,
The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke
(New York: Basic, 2003), pp. 97–122.

motherhood is “the single biggest risk factor”
Ann Crittenden, The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued (New York: Henry Holt, 2001), p. 6.

gave a commencement address at Vassar
Gloria Steinem, “ ‘Women's Liberation' Aims to Free Men Too,”
Washington Post
, June 7, 1970.

Alice Walker coined the term “womanism”
Alice Walker,
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
(San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983); Patricia Hill Collins, “What's in a Name? Womanism, Black Feminism, and Beyond,”
Black Scholar
26, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 1996): 9–17.

“From Private Woman”
Catherine Rottenberg, “Hijacking Feminism,” Al Jazeera, March 25, 2013,
aljazeera.com/​indepth/​opinion/2013/03/​201332510121757700.html
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“equal rights, justice”
Catherine Rottenberg, “Happiness and the Liberal Imagination: How Superwoman Became Balanced,”
Feminist Studies
40, no. 1 (2014),
bgu.ac.il/~rottenbe/​FeministStudies40-1​-Rottenberg.pdf
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“It's been more than forty years”
Susan Faludi, “Feminism for Them?,”
The Baffler
, no. 24 (2014),
thebaffler.com/​past/​feminism_for_them
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“As a mother to four”
Email to Anne-Marie Slaughter, August 10, 2012.