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A Fresh Look at the Price of Motherhood
Why Ann Crittenden says the most important job in the world is still the least valued
iters positions, as well as earn promotions. The women triumphed.
Crittenden wasted no time in taking advantage of the ruling. She showed up at Newsweek Magazine just as it was hiring the first wave of women writers. Crittenden also flew through the window of opportunity with The New York Times as it was looking to hire female reporters in 1975. "I was treated like one of the boys at The Times," recalls Crittenden.
After giving up her position with The Times, Crittenden began to write as a freelancer from home. Due to her experience as an economics journalist, and her interest in child-rearing issues with her new-found role, Crittenden began to notice a pattern – and started putting facts together. After six years of research, hundreds of interviews and countless frequent flyer miles, "The Price of Motherhood" was born.
"... I realized how little my former world seemed to understand, or care, about the complex reality I was discovering," writes Crittenden in her book. "The dominant culture of which I had been a part considered child-rearing unskilled labor, if it considered child-rearing at all. And no one was stating the obvious: If human abilities are the ultimate fount of economic progress, as many economists now agree, and if those abilities are nurtured (or stunted) in the early years, then mothers and other caregivers of the young are the most important producers in the economy. They do have, literally, the most important job in the world."
Crittenden's message has many dimensions. She stresses that mothers are obviously disadvantaged in the work place due to an "all or nothing" attitude by employers, as well as the research she uncovered that indicates women make only 59 percent of men's earnings. Unfortunately, Crittenden found this inequality in other institutions as well, like
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