Many women never get near that glass ceiling because they are stopped long before by the maternal wall.  -The New York Times, The Opt-Out Revolution, October 26, 2003.

We continue our conversation on the Opt-Out Revolution debate taking place in the media with the four writers we featured in episode five. This time, we concentrate on what they had to say about changing family roles, and the culture of work in general.  We also bring the conversation back full circle, to what changes employers are making that promise a different future.

We continue talking with:

Susan Douglas, 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, 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, contributing writer who covers gender politics for Salon.com.

Cathy Young, 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 

Happy Holidays from the Opt-In Project and Heller Ehrman! We will be taking a small hiatus,  but will resume our podcasting schedule with a brand new episode January 14, 2007! Seasons Greetings!