By Claudia Goldin
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021
Pp. xii, 325. $27.95 hardcover
Over the past five decades Claudia Goldin has had a magnificent career. She won multiple awards for her magisterial 1990 book on the history of women in the labor force, (New York: Oxford University Press). While producing award winning research on the race between education and technology (for example, , 2008, Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, co-authored by Lawrence F. Katz), she has continued her research on women in the economy. Her new book examines how college-educated women have managed the complicated relationships between family and careers since the late 1800s. It is written for a general audience and therefore emphasizes a few points and does not have much of the technical detail found in her earlier books. Yet the forces she emphasizes are powerful and clearly play a major role in the
