Holiday travel ramps up ahead of 4th of July. Here are the best times to hit the road or arrive at the airportJessica Calarco, center, poses with her daughter, Layla Calarco, and mother, Anne McCrory, in this undated photo provided by Jessica Calarco. Calarco is holding a copy of her book,"Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net.
In the U.S., we’ve instead tried to DIY society. We left it up to individual people to manage risk on their own, as opposed to allowing them to rely on a social safety net. And in practice, that means keeping taxes low, especially on wealthy people and corporations, cutting regulations and really underinvesting in the kinds of time and resources that people would need to be able to participate more actively in care. But the problem is that we can’t actually DIY society.
We saw this massive increase in women’s employment during the war. At the end of the war, those women almost universally wanted to keep their jobs — they wanted to stay in the paid workforce. But the easiest short term thing to do for the economy, once men were coming back and wanted their jobs back, was to push women back home. And this is not what many of our peer countries did.