Beka’s Reviews > Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net > Status Update

"Imagine a world where we value care work on par with IT."

"Precarity forces families + communities to look for the Mothers, the ones who have shown they can hold it together, + ask them to hold even more.

When it's clear employers + policymakers aren't willing to invest in your community, the only option for survival is to mine the resources + talents of your own."

"Married mothers could ask their spouses for more help at holding it all together but the fastest way to make a tight budget work is often with Dad at the office + Mom at home. Why? Because employers reward fathers w/Daddy Bonuses while subjecting moms to motherhood penalties limiting their wages + opportunities to advance."

"Sure, there are government programs that aim to prevent families from going hungry or getting stuck without a roof over their heads, but those programs aren't designed to lift families out of poverty -- they just make poverty a little easier to bear.
Moreover, those programs only protect the poorest among us. The message to the rest of us is to "figure it out on your own.""

A perfect follow-up read to my previously just finished!