How Women Became America’s Social Safety Net

After the 2022 Dobbs decision that forced us all to follow one narrow religious perspective, anyone with a uterus became a second class citizen in the U.S. But on top of this loss of rights and diminished status, women serve as a de facto societal safety net in America.

Jessica Calarco, PhD, has studied this issue for years; she’ll join us on Friday May 17 to talk about this work in her new book Holding it Together: How Women Became America’s Social Safety Net.

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Jessica Calarco is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an expert on inequalities in family life and education. She is the author of the new book Holding it Together: How Women Became America’s Social Safety Net.