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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792218303321

Autore

Mason Mary Ann

Titolo

Mothers on the fast track [[electronic resource] ] : how a new generation can balance family and careers / / Mary Ann Mason and Eve Mason Ekman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-19-537369-3

1-281-16255-8

0-19-804027-X

9786611162559

1-4356-1778-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EkmanEve Mason

Disciplina

306.874/3097309045

Soggetti

Working mothers - United States

Mothers - Employment - United States

Work and family - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-136) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Do babies matter? Mothers on the fast track -- The "mother problem": up, out, or sidelined? -- The student years : eighteen to thirty-two -- The make-or-break years: thirty to forty -- Mothers' choices: staying the course, opting out, or dropping down -- The second tier -- Beyond the glass ceiling: forty to sixty-five and beyond -- Second chances for mothers on the fast track.

Sommario/riassunto

In the past few decades the number of women entering graduate and professional schools has been going up and up, while the number of women reaching the top rung of the corporate and academic worlds has remained relatively stagnant. Why are so many women falling off the fast track?  In this timely book, Mary Ann Mason traces the career paths of the first generation of ambitious women who started careers in academia, law, medicine, business, and the media in large numbers in the 1970's and '80's. Many women who had started families but continued working had ended up veering off the path to upper...