What Does It Mean To Be Upper Middle Class?

Matriarchs for the Good Life: Part One

This series, Matriarchs for the Good Life, explores what “upper middle class” means in America today, as opposed to the 80s and 90s of my childhood, and reasons through the status and value maternal labor brings to the household aside from—or perhaps in addition to—income. How much of a difference does non-monetary capital make? If a woman consciously d…