Opting out? [[electronic resource] ] : why women really quit careers and head home / / Pamela Stone
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Stone Pamela
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| Titolo: |
Opting out? [[electronic resource] ] : why women really quit careers and head home / / Pamela Stone
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (316 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.8743 |
| Soggetto topico: | Stay-at-home mothers |
| Work and family | |
| Choice (Psychology) | |
| Life change events | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | american culture |
| american society | |
| bankers | |
| career | |
| caring for a family | |
| children | |
| cultural pressures | |
| cultural studies | |
| doctors | |
| family and career | |
| family matters | |
| family | |
| gender and labor | |
| gender equality | |
| gender expectations | |
| gender norms | |
| gender studies | |
| lawyers | |
| men and women | |
| motherhood | |
| mothers | |
| parenthood | |
| privatized family | |
| professional women | |
| pushed out of the workplace | |
| returning home | |
| scientists | |
| sociology | |
| staying home with kids | |
| time demanding jobs | |
| united states of america | |
| women and work | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Dream Team -- 2. Family Matters -- 3. Home Alone -- 4. Gilded Cages -- 5. The Choice Gap -- 6. Half-Full, Half-Empty -- 7. Mothers Of Re-Invention -- 8. Cocooning: The Drift To Domesticity -- 9. Dreams And Visions: Getting There -- Appendix. Study Methodology -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Noting a phenomenon that might seem to recall a previous era, The New York Times Magazine recently portrayed women who leave their careers in order to become full-time mothers as "opting out." But, are high-achieving professional women really choosing to abandon their careers in order to return home? This provocative study is the first to tackle this issue from the perspective of the women themselves. Based on a series of candid, in-depth interviews with women who returned home after working as doctors, lawyers, bankers, scientists, and other professions, Pamela Stone explores the role that their husbands, children, and coworkers play in their decision; how women's efforts to construct new lives and new identities unfold once they are home; and where their aspirations and plans for the future lie. What we learn-contrary to many media perceptions-is that these high-flying women are not opting out but are instead being pushed out of the workplace. Drawing on their experiences, Stone outlines concrete ideas for redesigning workplaces to make it easier for women-and men-to attain their goal of living rewarding lives that combine both families and careers. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Opting out |
| ISBN: | 1-282-36062-0 |
| 9786612360626 | |
| 0-520-94179-9 | |
| 1-4337-0834-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811343203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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