One of the most hotly contested, enduring debates among social scientists centers on the question, why is there (still) a gender-based pay gap? In Career and Family, Claudia Goldin, a preeminent economic historian and labor economist, downplays the relative importance of some answers commonly given to this question: discrimination, women’s lack of assertiveness, and occupational segregation. Instead, she identifies the primary culprit today in the U.S. as the structure of work and compensation, noting, “If we want to eradicate or even narrow the pay gap, we must first . . . give the problem a more accurate name: greedy work” (p. 3). A fuller, albeit less catchy, label for the problem as she identifies it is the spread of overwork in high-paying occupations in conjunction with women’s continuing primary role in managing households.

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事业与家庭：女性迈向平等的百年历程

社会科学家之间最激烈、最持久的辩论之一集中在以下问题上：为什么（仍然）存在基于性别的薪酬差距？在事业和家庭, 杰出的经济历史学家和劳工经济学家克劳迪娅·戈尔丁 (Claudia Goldin) 淡化了通常对这个问题给出的一些答案的相对重要性：歧视、女性缺乏自信和职业隔离。相反，她认为当今美国的罪魁祸首是工作结构和薪酬，并指出：“如果我们想消除甚至缩小薪酬差距，我们必须首先...... . . 给问题一个更准确的名称：贪婪的工作”（第 3 页）。在她看来，这个问题的一个更全面但不那么吸引人的标签是高薪职业中过度工作的蔓延以及女性在管理家庭中继续扮演主要角色。