Hard Choices : How Women Decide About Work, Career and Motherhood /

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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 1960s and 1970s? To answer these questions, Kathleen Gerson analyzes the experiences of a carefully selected gr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gerson, Kathleen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1986.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women > Employment.
Mothers > Employment.
Family size.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Familles > Dimension > États-Unis > Histoire.
Meres > Travail > États-Unis > Histoire.
Family size > United States > History.
Mothers > Employment > United States > History.
Women > Employment > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 1960s and 1970s? 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 1970s. Their informative life histories reveal the emerging social forces in American society that have led today's women to face several difficult choices.
Physical Description:1 online resource (350 pages).
ISBN:9780520908130

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