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Women & Work: Does Your Biological Clock Have a Price? | Corinne Low — Ripple Effect Podcast

March 08, 2023 / 00:43

This episode discusses reproductive capital, the economic value of women's fertility, and the trade-offs women face between career and family. Guest speaker highlights the importance of recognizing this value for women, partners, firms, and policymakers.

The conversation centers around how acknowledging reproductive capital can change the way women approach their career and family decisions. The guest emphasizes the need for new strategies to help women maximize both human capital and reproductive capital.

Listeners are encouraged to consider the implications of these ideas on societal norms and policies regarding women's roles in the workforce and family life.

TLDR

This episode covers reproductive capital and women's career-family trade-offs.

Episode

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I study the trade-off that women make between Career and family in economics terms and so I coined the term

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reproductive Capital to represent the economic value of women's fertility which I think is a really important way

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for not just women to think about these decisions but for firms and policy makers to think about these decisions

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because if we acknowledge that women's fertility has economic value to them to

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their Partners to society then we need to rethink the way that we make women make these trade-offs between human

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capital and reproductive capital and find ways to allow women to maximize the value of both if you want to hear more

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about this I hope you'll listen to the full podcast where I tell you all about

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reproductive capital

Episode Highlights

Understanding Reproductive Capital
Exploring the economic value of women's fertility and its implications.
“Reproductive capital represents the economic value of women's fertility.”
@ 00m 06s
March 08, 2023

Episode Quotes

Women's fertility has economic value.
Women & Work: Does Your Biological Clock Have a Price? | Corinne Low — Ripple Effect Podcast
We need to rethink how women make trade-offs.
Women & Work: Does Your Biological Clock Have a Price? | Corinne Low — Ripple Effect Podcast

Key Moments

Reproductive Capital Defined00:06
Economic Value of Fertility00:08
Rethinking Trade-offs00:25