Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2016-07-21
Books mentioned on 254. What Are Gender Barriers Made Of?
Overt discrimination in the labor markets may be on the wane, but women are still subtly penalized by all sorts of societal conventions. How can those penalties be removed without burning down the house?
Stephen Dubner discussed Sharing the Work by Myra Strober.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Sharing the Work
Discussed“Myra Strober, the pioneering economist we heard from earlier, has written a book called Sharing the Work, What My Family and Career Taught Me About Breaking Through and Holding the Door Open for Others. It's part memoir, part analysis of how the workplace has always been, probably always will be, a different kind of challenge for men and women.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged What Works
“I'm the author of what works, gender equality by design, which brings these insights to bear on the question of gender equality. The book focuses on what organizations can do, including schools, but then companies, agencies, governments can do to close gender gaps using behavioral insights.”
Plugged What Works
“So first of all, I don't take offense at all. In fact, one of the big arguments of the book is that these are low-hanging fruit, often relatively cheap, and we should do them tomorrow.”