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100	1		_aCalarco, Jessica McCrory, _d1983- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aHolding it together : _bhow women became America's safety net / _cJessica Calarco.
263			_a2406
264		1	_aNew York : _bPortfolio/Penguin, _c[2024]
264		4	_c©2024.
300			_axv, 316 pages ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 217-303) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- Part I. How we get women to hold it together -- Making them mothers-in-waiting -- Leaving some women with no choice -- Leaving others morally trapped -- Part II. Why we haven't fixed this and how we could -- Good choices won't save us -- The meritocracy myth -- The Mars/Venus myth -- The supermom myth -- What a better net would mean -- Conclusion : Leveraging our linked fates -- Appendix : Data collection and methods.
520			_a"Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women-women who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. In this tour de force, acclaimed Sociologist Jessica Calarco lays bare the devastating consequences of our status quo. Holding It Together draws on five years of research in which Calarco surveyed over 4000 parents and conducted more than 400 hours of interviews with women who bear the brunt of our broken system. A widowed single mother struggles to patch together meager public benefits while working three jobs; an aunt is pushed into caring for her niece and nephew at age fifteen once their family is shattered by the opioid epidemic; a daughter becomes the backstop caregiver for her mother, her husband, and her child because of the perceived flexibility of her job; a well-to-do couple grapples with the moral dilemma of leaning on overworked, underpaid childcare providers to achieve their egalitarian ideals. Stories of grief and guilt abound. Yet, they are more than individual tragedies. Tracing present-day policies back to their roots, Calarco reveals a systematic agreement to dismantle our country's social safety net and persuade citizens to accept precarity while women bear the brunt. She leads us to see women's labor as the reason we've gone so long without the support systems that our peer nations take for granted, and how women's work maintains the illusion that we don't need a net. Weaving eye-opening original research with revelatory sociological narrative, Holding It Together is a bold call to demand the institutional change that each of us deserves, and a warning about the perils of living without it"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aWorking class women _zUnited States.
650		0	_aWorking poor _zUnited States. _9168037
650		0	_aPoor women _xEmployment _zUnited States.
650		0	_aWork and family _zUnited States. _994344
650		0	_aLabor policy _zUnited States.
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