Motherhood and Employment

Guest: Caitlyn Collins, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin  There’s been much discussion lately about whether women can really have it all: a high-powered career and a family. The United States gets a lot of criticism in that conversation for being the only developed country in the world that doesn’t require employers to offer paid maternity leave. In European countries, women can have a baby and still feel confident that they’ll come back to a job.