Keeping Women on the Job

Workplace Buzz on June 4, 2007 1:33 PM

Boston’s NPR’s Tom Ashbrook, host of On Point, talks about keeping women at work.

It's been a long and winding road for women in the American workplace. First, they were frozen out or locked in the steno pool. Then came "liberation" with its open doors and glass ceilings. Then, a crisis of confidence over whether work and child-rearing could really co-exist.

Now, the new challenge is that of the era of "extreme work," when seventy-hour weeks and 24/7 demands can make work-life balance seem impossible. But we need the talents of women at top levels.

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