Who should care for whom in this age of gender equality? Meet the Leaders with David Goodhart and Vicky Pryce

David Goodhart is a journalist, author and think tanker—and father of four—currently head of the demography unit at the Policy Exchange think tank. He is the founder and former editor of Prospect magazine and the former director of the centre-left think tank Demos. His 2013 book The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-War Immigration was runner up for the Orwell book prize. In 2017 he published The Road to Somewhere: The New Tribes Shaping British Politics (a Sunday Times bestseller), in which he identified the value divisions in British society between Anywheres and Somewheres that help to explain the Brexit vote and the rise of populism. His subsequent book Head, Hand, Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century argued that many of the modern world’s troubles arise from allocating too much reward and status to just one form of human aptitude: cognitive ability. His new book The Care Dilemma: Caring Enough in the Age of Sex Equality is about how rich countries undervalue care work both in the public economy and the family.

Vicky Pryce is the Chair of Radix Big Tent and a leading economist and author, whose career includes being Director General for Economics at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service, and Chief Economist and Partner at KPMG after senior positions in banking and the energy sector. She is currently Chief Economic Adviser at the Centre for Economics and Business Research. Vicky is also Chair of the Economic Advisory Council for the British Chambers of Commerce and a visiting Professor at King’s College, London. She is a patron of Pro-Bono Economics and was co-founder of GoodCorporation, a company set up to advise on business ethics.