"Some more highly educated women have circumvented the economic penalties of reproduction by forgoing having children entirely. Folbre notes that almost a quarter of college educated women between ages 40 and 44 don’t have any kids. Urban, college educated women in their 30’s who don’t have children actually outearn their male peers." -
Has The Women’s Rights Movement Screwed Over Poor Women? (via sociolab)
“If poor women haven’t made much discernable progress in the last 40 years, then can women claim that they’re approaching equality with men? Or is the illusion of progress among college educated women actually just wealthier women exploiting an ever growing wealth gap to buy their way around the shittier aspects of balancing motherhood and career in the United States? Is the progress of the ladies who power lunch coming on the backs of poor women?”
This is actually a good point about the intersectionality of gender and class. The article is really short and worth a quick read.
