How We Work: Five Years Later (NHPR)

Kristin Smith is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Dartmouth, family demographer at the Carsey Institute and Research Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire. Her research interests focus on women's labor force participation and work and family policy.  She contributed to three separate NHPR stories as part of their week-long series, "How we work: five years later."

Workers Vote With Feet, Leave Home-Based Childcare
There's a change underway in New Hampshire daycare. Increasingly childcare centers are opening and family, home-based operations are closing, and some believe the changing demands of the workplace are part of what's driving the shift. Kristin spoke to NHPR about the shift in day care decisions...Read the story. 

Despite Gains, Closing Wage Gap Could Take Decades 
In 2011, women working full-time in New Hampshire made 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man. Women's wages as a percent of men's have been growing since the passage of the Equal Pay Act in 1963. But, Kristin says the pace of change has slowed considerably...Read the story.

How Recessions Make Women Breadwinners
It's a trend that has been ongoing for years, but was accelerated by the recession: wives as breadwinners.  Kristin has researched and written extensively about how families are increasingly reliant on employed wives' earnings... Hear the story.