Opting out? : why women really quit careers and head home /
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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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2007.
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Sommario:
- 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.