Emily Matchar

“For women with children, the new handmade economy offers the tantalizing possibility of flexible, part-time, at home work--the "egg money" of the…

— Emily Matchar

“A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we’ve seen with the antivaccination movement.”

— Emily Matchar

“But she realized that modern homemaking could be creatively fulfilling in a way she'd never imagined. Unlike previous generations of housewives, who…

— Emily Matchar

“There’s no evidence that women are actually happier at home. In fact numerous studies show that working moms are happier and more…

— Emily Matchar

“Why is it we don’t intervene in the bureaucracy?” asks Chris Bobel, the gender studies scholar, who has noted that many young…

— Emily Matchar

“[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual…

— Emily Matchar

“Dozens of my own friends and acquaintances--ambitious, educated women who might have turned up their noses at anything domestic had they been…

— Emily Matchar

“Does the burden of “do it yourself” fall harder on women than men?”

— Emily Matchar

“Golden sees parental uninterest in collective solutions as part of a larger “decline in the social contract”… "As a scholar, I'm very…

— Emily Matchar

American culture at large has failed working mothers.

— Emily Matchar

“Choosing a simpler life does not offer me a paycheck, a pat on the back from the parents who paid for a…

— Emily Matchar

“I was in need of some community," she said. "I think that's the reason so many women bloggers start blogging, just to…

— Emily Matchar

“If women cut back on their ambitions en masse, institutional change will never happen and the glass ceiling will lower. We need…

— Emily Matchar

“My grandfather so throughly considered cooking to be "women's work" that he wouldn't even enter the kitchen to get his own glass…

— Emily Matchar

“Sweden had paternity-leave policies in place for years but found that few men were taking advantage of the benefit. While women felt…

— Emily Matchar

“Jean Railla puts it even more bluntly: "Workplaces are still very sexist--it's hard to be a woman in the workplace.”

— Emily Matchar

It's not the nineteenth century; I'm not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the…

— Emily Matchar

“Being a stay-at-home mom to one child, a baby, when you’re a mom of one is not really a full-time job,” she…

— Emily Matchar

“We grow up going to school, where you get a gold star, you get the A-plus," she says. "At work you're constantly…

— Emily Matchar

“when affluent, educated parents decide to homeschool, public schools lose out on involved PTA parents and capable school-improvement advocates. Or when parents…

— Emily Matchar

“Many men no longer want to be identified just by their jobs," said Bengt Westerberg, the country's former deputy prime minister.”

— Emily Matchar

“In progressive, middle-class circles these days, there's the overwhelming sense that procuring and cooking freshest, healthiest, most sustainably sourced food should be…

— Emily Matchar

“[Leslie Bennett] You have a teenager who desperately wants to separate...If you don't have a career, these New Domesticity types are likely…

— Emily Matchar

“[Joan C. Williams] Food has always been a class code, and since Alice Waters, the way to give an upper-middle class act…

— Emily Matchar