Glass Ceilings and 100-Hour Couples: What the Opt-Out Phenomenon Can Teach Us about Work and Family
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (726 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820334049 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 215 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Moe and Shandy find, for instance, that women who have downsized their careers stress the value of social networksof “running with a pack of smart women” who’ve also chosen to emphasize motherhood over paid work.. But Moe and Shandy are equally attentive to the resilience of women in the face of life decisions that might otherwise threaten their sense of self-worth. Karine Moe and Dianna Shandy, a professional economist and an anthropologist, respectively, decided to step back from the sometimes overheated rhetoric around the so-called mommy wars. Glass Ceilings and 100-Hour Couples is the fruit of their invest
Economist Moe and anthropologist Shandy, both of Macalester College, dispassionately dissect the statistics and motivations behind opting out to determine whether this recent, still narrow trend denotes a bellwether, a fin-de-siècle folly or just a blip on the cultural radar. . From Publishers Weekly Over the past 15 years, many highly educated, middle-class women have—whether by inclination or necessity—traded their 50-plus–hour workweeks and considerable paychecks to stay home with their children and enjoy a saner, less hectic life. Liberally used economic statistics describe fina
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