Heather Boushey
An incisive analysis that is both a joy to read and a must read. Williams shows that work-family conflict is not just an issue for women's magazines; it is at the core of what ails America. Changing the way we think about gender in the workplace is the first step toward a more politically potent progressive agenda, and this book illuminates the path forward.
— Heather Boushey, Senior Economist, Center for American Progress
Joan Blades
At last, a book that leaps past the current work-family debate. It is time to free women and men to nurture their children and support their families. Brilliant!
— Joan Blades, co-founder of MoveOn.org and MomsRising.org
Michael Kimmel
In this sensible and erudite book, Williams exposes the myths that have dominated work and family policy discussions and argues for the inclusion of men's activities and differences by class. By adding these crucial dimensions, she points the way toward simpler, smarter, and more sober analyses.
— Michael Kimmel, author of Manhood in America: A Cultural History
Robin Ely
This refreshing, empirically based book offers solutions for a wide-ranging audience: business leaders, diversity professionals, and executive coaches; and for men and women struggling to understand why equal sharing is so hard to achieve at home, and work-family balance is so hard to achieve at work.
— Robin Ely, Harvard Business School
James T. Kloppenberg
Reshaping the Work-Family Debate cements the position of Williams as one of the most imaginative and influential legal theorists and activists of her generation. Every American citizen--female and male, rich and poor--who is part of a family or a workplace will benefit from wrestling with the ideas of this visionary realist.
— James T. Kloppenberg, Harvard University
Naomi Cahn
This book will transform how we think about work and family issues as it shows how gender traditionalism and recent culture wars are fueled by the hidden injuries of class. Long a leader in the work-family field, Williams guides us to solutions that make sense in today's world.
— Naomi Cahn, co-author of Red Families v. Blue Families
Cecilia Ridgeway
This ambitious book is a much-needed breath of fresh air in the recycled atmosphere of debates about work-family conflicts and the stalling of the gender revolution.
— Cecilia Ridgeway, Stanford University
Sharon Hays
A very important book. Skillfully cracking popular myths about the 'average family,' Williams offers a fascinating analysis of the importance of workplace culture, the code of masculinity, and class blindness in perpetuating widespread work-family tensions.
— Sharon Hays, author of Flat Broke with Children
