Why don't women run the world? Maybe it's because they don't want to. --The New York Times, The Opt-Out Revolution," October 26, 2003.

In this, our fifth episode of the Opt-In podcast, we return to the original inspiration for the Opt-In project and talk about how the debate over women and the workforce has evolved in the media. Over the next two episodes, we talk to op-ed contributors and columnists who cover work life and gender issues and ask them how they see the discussion progressing. We hear what they think about the way the media has covered the so-called opt-out revolution and what issues they feel need more attention. 

Featured in this episode:

Susan Douglas http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/about/author/43/, chair of Communication Studies at The University of Michigan, co-author of The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How it Undermines Women, and contributor to In These Times.

Maggie Jackson http://bostonworks.boston.com/news/archive/balance/, is an award-winning columnist and author of What's Happening to Home? Balancing Work, Life and Refuge in  the Information Age. Her twice-monthly column on work life issues, Balancing Acts, appears in The Boston Sunday Globe.
 
Rebecca Traister http://www.salon.com, contributing writer who covers gender politics for Salon.com.

Cathy Young  http://www.cathyyoung.net/index.html, contributor to Reason Magazine and op-ed columnist who has written about gender issues for The Boston Globe.

This podcast was produced in collaboration with Hear Now Productions: http://www.hearnowproductions.com