Mothers at work : who opts out? /

Though a majority of mothers of young children are employed outside the home, countless articles have been devoted to anecdotes about highly educated women in high-status occupations ""opting out"" of the labor force. Are mothers in these occupations in fact the most likely to op...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Landivar, Liana Christin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2017.
Temas:
Mothers > Employment.
Working mothers.
Mères > Travail.
Mères au travail.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • The opt-out narrative
  • Changes in employment policies and cultural attitudes
  • Employed mothers become the norm
  • Doctors or dishwashers? : a look at who opts out
  • Opting to stay : schedule flexibility and reduced work hours
  • Does age matter?
  • The motherhood wage gap and delayed fertility
  • Looking at the big picture
  • Appendixes
  • A: Occupation categories
  • B: Descriptive statistics
  • C: What about fathers?
  • D: Occupation coefficients derived from hierarchical models
  • E: Women's earnings by occupation, age, and presence and age of children among full-time, year round workers
  • F: Data sources
  • References.

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