Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net

"Maybe it’s the age I’m in – seeing friends and peers become parents while also caring for their own parents, seeing how it radically changes their lives, seeing the price of child care! – but this book hit home. Drawing on surveys and in-depth interviews, Holding It Together clearly lays out how the U.S. forces women to fill in as society’s support system through both written policy and cultural norms. Some of the interviews may ruin your day with how angry they make you. There is also a healthy dose of hope, as this book points us toward urgent institutional changes to pave a better path forward."