Jordan and Harris' A Woman's Place is in the Marketplace: Gender and Economics

This book presents a serious analysis of gender equality and the financial and economic penalties imposed on women who must navigate between the modern Scylla and Charybdis of work and family life. It poses substantive questions about the family, the market, the state, and the gender order, and provides a variety of analytic tools for thinking about them. For example, in order to pursue the good life, women as well as men now expect to be in the marketplace for much of their adult lives. Has the imperative pushing all adults into the marketplace created a crisis in the family?