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Has the Movement for Women's Equality Hit a Wall?
Polls show more than three-fourths of Americans think the best marriage allows mothers and fathers equal time to work and take care of family, but that's increasingly hard.
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenPolls show more than three-fourths of Americans think the best marriage allows both mothers and fathers equal time to work and take care of the family, but in practice that's increasingly hard. What's happened since the Women's Movement began 50 years ago? Are employment practices out of sync with workers themselves? Also, with the payroll tax holiday over, are people spending less? On Reporter's Notebook, great films and actors that never won.
Banner image: National Organization for Women (NOW) founder Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan (2nd L), 1968. Photo courtesy Smithsonian Institution
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The "payroll tax holiday” enacted two years ago to stimulate the economy expired on January 1. Retailers, restaurants and other businesses say that reduced take-home pay for consumers is taking a bite out of sales. Sudeep Reddy is economics reporter for the Wall Street Journal . He blogs at Real Time Economics .
Read the story8 minHas the Movement for Women's Equality Hit a Wall?
Fifty years ago, Betty Friedan jump-started the Women's Movement, and the number of women joining the workforce increased for the next 30 years. But toward the end of the 90's, that number began to decline, partly because workplace requirements increased without becoming more flexible.
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