Elizabeth Gregory

Elizabeth Gregory

Elizabeth Gregory directs the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Houston and is the author of Ready: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood (Basic Books, 2008). She blogs about the politics and economics of motherhood and women’s work at www.domesticproduct.net

Elizabeth Gregory's articles

Helen of Troy: Some Women’s History Should Stay That Way

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by Elizabeth Gregory

March 28, 2011 - 10:12am (Print)

Women's history month 2011 provides a special kind of lesson. At least since Helen of Troy, our leaders have been actively denying women the right to choose how to run their private lives.

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Fair Pay Could Mean a More Fertile Future

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by Elizabeth Gregory

November 16, 2010 - 2:49pm (Print)

At first blush, the debate over the Paycheck Fairness Act may not look like part of our ongoing national fertility discourse. But failure to pass the PFA will give women yet another reason to have fewer kids.  

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