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

• Autore: Mason Mary Ann
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.874/3097309045
• Soggetto topico: Working mothers - United States; Mothers - Employment - United States; Work and family - United States
• Altri autori: EkmanEve Mason
• 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...
• Titolo autorizzato: Mothers on the fast track
• ISBN: 0-19-537369-3; 1-281-16255-8; 0-19-804027-X; 9786611162559; 1-4356-1778-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818977503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II