Prof. Joan Williams Authors Op-ed on Huffington Post

Professor Joan Williams discusses the portrayal of the work-life balance in the media.

The Times Opts Out of the "Opt Out" Narrative
The Huffington Post
The New York Times, for forty years, ran one story after another quoting women saying they had opted out of the workforce after they had children, according to a 2006 report by the Center for WorkLife Law. The most famous was Lisa Belkin's 2003 New York Times Magazine story, "The Opt Out Revolution."
Now there's change a-brewing on the business page. Last week, David Leonhardt's "A Labor Market Punishing to Mothers" focused not on mothers' choices but on the ways the labor market pushes mothers out of good jobs.
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