Rise of 'Greedy' Work': We Hate It Except When We Love It

Claire Cain Miller's recent viral article about greedy work and its effect on women's careers put into words what many women already know from disheartening experience. The NY Times reporter showed in Women Did Everything Right: Then Work got Greedy how jobs have morphed into a monstrous octopus, squeezing the life out of family and leisure time. As parenting became more demanding (see my earlier article about this phenomenon), something had to give. For reasons that we'll be arguing about till kingdom come, that something has generally been women's work hours.