Up With Women in the Downturn

msmagazine.com — The Chinese proverb “Women hold up half the sky” provides a good starting point to understand the current place of women in the U.S. economy, and thus the differential impact they face from this downturn. But which half of the sky are women holding up? A good deal of work in our paid economy—and also the unpaid work in homes—is still sex-segregated.

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