Holding it together: how women became America's safety net

Part I: How we get women to hold it together. 1. Making them mothers-in-waiting

2. Leaving some women with no choice

3. Leaving others morally trapped

Part II. Why we haven't fixed this and how we could. 4. Good choices won't save us

5. The meritocracy myth

6. The Mars/Venus myth

7. The supermom myth

8. What a better net would mean

Conclusion: leveraging our linked fates.