The Opt-Out Elite Summary

The article, “The Opt-Out Elite,” by Nancy Folbre sparked my interest when reading through the blog “Care Talk.” The article addresses a population that we didn’t examine in depth in lecture, the upper class. The upper class appears to be a touchy subject for the United States possibly because of the extreme wage gaps and income ratios throughout the nation. In past years there have been an upper class and a lower class where the middle class almost disappears. In 2015, Nancy addresses Claire Cain Miller’s article in the New York Time on what she calls a “career pause.” Miller explains in her article that millenials define career success as, “a career that is flexible enough to fit in family responsibilities,” (Miller). Folbre further explains in her piece that women who graduated from elite institutions were more likely to drop out of the labor force to raise children. With feminist craze starting around the time this article was written, it seems opposite of what women would be fighting for. In a standard feminist view, they are looking for equality where women aren’t obligated to drop their career and raise children. Why then, are elite graduates with …show more content…
Cohen and Suzanne M. Bianchi describe in their article, cited in the Women in the Economy textbook, “Marriage, Children, and Women’s Employment,” that women have increased opportunities for earnings and occupational attainment especially when they are highly educated. Under middle class circumstances, this increased earnings opportunity would realistically lead to women being more dedicated to the workforce. The data doesn’t correlated to what we would see as common sense. Since 19978, women’s participation rate in the labor force has increased within the categories of all women, married women, and women with children under the age of six. For example, in 1978, 50.5 percent married women with children were employed, where ten years later, the percentage had increased by 20 to 70.5 percent

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