Jessica Calarco joins Laura and Adrian to unpack her newly released book, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130/holding-it-together-by-jessica-calarco/">Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Social Safety Net.</a> They discuss the histories and the sociological interviews central to Calarco's book, painting a picture of the women who are tasked with holding society together with their labor.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.jessicacalarco.com/">Dr. Jessica Calarco</a> is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert on education, families, and health decision-making. Her award-winning <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.jessicacalarco.com/research-areas">research</a> reveals how structures power and privilege maintain socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and gender inequalities in these settings. She is the author of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/negotiating-opportunities-9780190634445?cc=us&lang=en">Negotiating Opportunities</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/9780691201108/a-field-guide-to-grad-school">A Field Guide to Grad School</a>, and most recently <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130/holding-it-together-by-jessica-calarco/">Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Social Safety Net.</a>

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Episode 50 - Jessica Calarco: Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women.

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