Heading home : motherhood, work, and the failed promise of equality /

Heading Home reveals the stark gap between the promise of gender equality and women's experience of continued injustice. It draws on in-depth interviews with highly educated London women who left paid employment to take care of their children, juxtaposed with media and policy depictions of wome...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Orgad, Shani, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Work and family.
Working mothers.
Stay-at-home mothers.
Women in the professions.
Women executives.
Sex discrimination in employment.
Travail et familles.
Mères au travail.
Mères au foyer.
Femmes dans les professions libérales.
Discrimination sexuelle dans l'emploi.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Workplace Culture.
Sex discrimination in employment
Stay-at-home mothers
Women executives
Women in the professions
Work and family
Working mothers
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Heading Home: Forced Choices; 1. Choice and Confidence Culture/Toxic Work Culture; 2. The Balanced Woman/Unequal Homes; Part II: Heading the Home: The Personal Consequences of Forced Choices; 3. Cupcake Mom/Family CEO; 4. Aberrant Mothers/Captive Wives; Part III: Heading Where? Curbed Desires; 5. The Mompreneur/Inarticulate Desire; 6. Inevitable Change/Invisible Chains; Conclusion: Impatience; Appendix 1: Interviewees' Key Characteristics; Appendix 2: List of Media and Policy Representations
  • Appendix 3: Study MethodologyAppendix 4: Characteristics of UK Stay-at-Home Mothers; Notes; Index

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