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Hard choices : how women decide about work, career, and motherhood / / Kathleen Gerson



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Autore: Gerson Kathleen Visualizza persona
Titolo: Hard choices : how women decide about work, career, and motherhood / / Kathleen Gerson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1985
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xix, 312 pages)
Disciplina: 305.4/0973
Soggetto topico: Women - United States - Social conditions
Mothers - United States - Social conditions
Women - Employment - United States - History
Mothers - Employment - United States - History
Family size - United States - History
Women - United States - Psychology
Soggetto non controllato: business
childcare
childfree
childless women
economics
family commitments
family
feminism
gender roles
gender studies
gender
having it all
household labor
labor industrial relations
labor
marriage
maternity leave
maternity
motherhood
nonfiction
parenting
political science
sex roles
social issues
social justice
sociology
women in the workforce
women
womens issues
womens rights
womens studies
womens work
work and family
work life balance
working moms
working women
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-301) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Women's Work and Family Decisions: The "Subtle Revolution" in Historical Perspective -- 2. Explaining Women's Behavior: A Theoretical Overview -- 3. Baselines -- 4. Veering Away from Domesticity -- 5. Veering Toward Domesticity -- 6. Homemaking Versus Childlessness -- 7. Combining Work and Motherhood -- 8. The Changing Contours of Women's Place -- 9. The Politics of Parenthood -- APPENDIX A. Tables -- APPENDIX B. Methodology -- APPENDIX C. Sample Characteristics -- APPENDIX D. Interview Schedule -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Sommario/riassunto: How do women choose between work and family commitments? And what are the causes, limits, and consequences of the "subtle revolution" in women's choices over the 1960's and 1970's? To answer these questions, Kathleen Gerson analyzes the experiences of a carefully selected group of middle-class and working-class women who were young adults in the 1970's. Their informative life histories reveal the emerging social forces in American society that have led today's women to face several difficult choices.
Titolo autorizzato: Hard choices  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-35528-7
9786612355288
0-520-90813-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910821230303321
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Serie: California series on social choice and political economy.