Why Do We Pay Our Plumbers More Than Our Caregivers?
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Interviewer Terrence McNally hosts Free Forum on KPFK 90.7FM, Los Angeles (streaming at kpfk.org). Riane Eisler is author of the international best-seller The Chalice and the Blade; Our History, Our Future; Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body; The Power of Politics, and her newest, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics. She is president of the Center for Partnership Studies and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and the World Business Academy.
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