Women at Work

I like this review on Women at Work. Jennifer Roback Morse, a fellow in economics at the Acton Institute, starts out this way in a piece in The Weekly Standard:

Old-fashioned Marxist feminism has lost whatever charm it once had for the younger generation. Twentysomethings don't view divorce as the Ultimate Liberation. Generation X mothers demand time off rather than High-Quality-Affordable-Day-Care. Even Ivy League women now take significant detours from their careers to raise children.

These attitudes represent significant losses for the political left, since gender politics provided them an entrée to regulate the labor market, deconstruct the family, control school curriculum, micromanage sports programs, and unleash an avalanche of litigation--goals that would have been difficult to achieve any other way.

Of the four books Morse reviews, I'd probably like to read Hewlett's, Off-Ramps and On-Ramps, and recommend it to my next generation. Here's a spin-off site that looks to be a good resource.