Opting out? : why women really quit careers and head home /

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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 r...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stone, Pamela, 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Stay-at-home mothers.
Work and family.
Choice (Psychology)
Life change events.
Choice Behavior
Life Change Events
Mères au foyer.
Travail et familles.
Choix (Psychologie)
Événements stressants de la vie.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Parenting > Motherhood.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Life change events
Stay-at-home mothers
Work and family
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The dream team
  • Family matters
  • Home alone
  • Gilded cages
  • The choice gap
  • Half-full, half-empty
  • Mothers of re-invention
  • Cocooning: the drift to domesticity
  • Dreams and visions: getting there
  • Appendix. Study methodology.

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