The Resource Opting out? : why women really quit careers and head home, Pamela Stone
Opting out? : why women really quit careers and head home, Pamela Stone
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- Summary
- "With insight and compassion, Pam Stone shows convincingly that, far from representing a return to tradition, the decision of some women to relinquish high-powered careers is a reluctant and conflict-ridden response to the growing mismatch between privatized families and time-demanding jobs. By charting the institutional obstacles and cultural pressures that continue to leave even the most advantaged women facing impossible options, Opting Out? gets beneath the hype and offers the real story behind the misleading headlines. This groundbreaking study is required reading for anyone who cares about the fate of families, work, and gender equality in contemporary America."--Kathleen Gerson, author of Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhood "Pamela Stone's Opting Out? is a creative and beautifully written addition to the burgeoning scholarly and popular literature on work and family. Stone gives voice to those elite career women-the 'best and the brightest'-who have returned home to raise their kids. She creatively unpacks these women's 'choices,' describing both the 'pulls' of family life but also the labor market 'pushes.' Opting Out? is a fully nuanced portrait of women (and their husbands) struggling to make important life decisions in a culture that often provides only simplistic zero-sum alternatives: mom or worker, even though most women are already working moms. Women want alternative visions of working motherhood, yet are often stymied by outmoded workplace models (and firms and managers) insensitive to the concerns of working families
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xviii, 295 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780520244351
- Label
- Opting out? : why women really quit careers and head home
- Title
- Opting out?
- Title remainder
- why women really quit careers and head home
- Statement of responsibility
- Pamela Stone
- Title variation
- Why women really quit careers and head home
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "With insight and compassion, Pam Stone shows convincingly that, far from representing a return to tradition, the decision of some women to relinquish high-powered careers is a reluctant and conflict-ridden response to the growing mismatch between privatized families and time-demanding jobs. By charting the institutional obstacles and cultural pressures that continue to leave even the most advantaged women facing impossible options, Opting Out? gets beneath the hype and offers the real story behind the misleading headlines. This groundbreaking study is required reading for anyone who cares about the fate of families, work, and gender equality in contemporary America."--Kathleen Gerson, author of Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhood "Pamela Stone's Opting Out? is a creative and beautifully written addition to the burgeoning scholarly and popular literature on work and family. Stone gives voice to those elite career women-the 'best and the brightest'-who have returned home to raise their kids. She creatively unpacks these women's 'choices,' describing both the 'pulls' of family life but also the labor market 'pushes.' Opting Out? is a fully nuanced portrait of women (and their husbands) struggling to make important life decisions in a culture that often provides only simplistic zero-sum alternatives: mom or worker, even though most women are already working moms. Women want alternative visions of working motherhood, yet are often stymied by outmoded workplace models (and firms and managers) insensitive to the concerns of working families
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- 324025
- Cataloging source
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- Stone, Pamela
- Dewey number
- 306.874/3
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HQ759.46
- LC item number
- .S86 2007
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Stay-at-home mothers
- Work and family
- Choice (Psychology)
- Life change events
- Target audience
- adult
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- why women really quit careers and head home
- Label
- Opting out? : why women really quit careers and head home, Pamela Stone
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index
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- volume
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- 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
- Control code
- 633340
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xviii, 295 pages
- Isbn
- 9780520244351
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2007006566
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- unmediated
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- rdamedia
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- illustrations
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- (Sirsi) i9780520244351
- (OCoLC)84838543
- Label
- Opting out? : why women really quit careers and head home, Pamela Stone
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
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- text
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- txt
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- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 633340
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xviii, 295 pages
- Isbn
- 9780520244351
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2007006566
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780520244351
- (OCoLC)84838543
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