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Opting out? [[electronic resource] ] : why women really quit careers and head home / / Pamela Stone



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Autore: Stone Pamela Visualizza persona
Titolo: Opting out? [[electronic resource] ] : why women really quit careers and head home / / Pamela Stone Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
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.: 9910784406303321
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