Nov 30, 2020
Dr. Jennifer Glass
(https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sociology/faculty/jg47972) joins us
to talk about the disproportionate hit mothers have taken in pay
during the pandemic. She gets into variables, largely determined by
an utter lack of social insurance and sectors that don’t really
protect workers in general. She also cites the last several decades
of decline in the delivery of educational systems as major factors.
Questioning our low fertility rates and how they’re related to
national financial insecurity, she looks to more prosperous
countries not as wealthy as the U.S. Dr. Jennifer Glass is the
Centennial Commission Professor of Liberal Arts in the Department
of Sociology and Research Associate in the Population Research
Center at the University of Texas, Austin. Her work has appeared in
the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review,
Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Journal of
Health and Social Behavior, and Demography, among others.