Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net -- Jessica Calarco, Hardcover New Age / Body Whether you are learning to

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Everything we truly desire: love

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Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net -- Jessica Calarco, Hardcover New Age / Body Whether you are learning toOther countries have social safety nets. The U. S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women women who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. In this tour de force, acclaimed Sociologist Jessica Calarco lays bare the devastating consequences of our status quo. Holding It Together draws on five years of research in which Calarco surveyed over