Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net

Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences.

America runs on women-women*who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and*fixing it when things fall apart.*In this tour*de force, acclaimed Sociologist Jessica*Calarco*lays bare the devastating consequences of our status quo. *

Holding It Together draws on five years of research*in which*Calarco*surveyed over 4000 parents and conducted more than 400 ho...