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Glass Ceilings and 100-hour Couples - What the Opt-out Phenomenon Can Teach Us About Work and Family (Hardcover)
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Glass Ceilings and 100-hour Couples - What the Opt-out Phenomenon Can Teach Us About Work and Family (Hardcover)
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Office, home, and the balance between them. When significant
numbers of college-educated American women began, in the early
twenty-first century, to leave paid work to become stay-at-home
mothers, an emotionally charged national debate erupted. 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. They wondered what really
inspired women to opt out, and they wanted to gauge the
phenomenon's genuine repercussions. ""Glass Ceilings and 100-Hour
Couples"" is the fruit of their investigation - a rigorous,
accessible, and sympathetic reckoning with this hot-button issue in
contemporary life. Drawing on hundreds of interviews from around
the country, original survey research, and national labor force
data, Moe and Shandy refocus the discussion of women who opt out
from one where they are the object of scrutiny to one where their
aspirations and struggles tell us about the far broader swath of
American women who continue to juggle paid work and family. Moe and
Shandy examine the many pressures that influence a woman's decision
to resign, reduce, or reorient her career. These include the
mismatch between child-care options and workplace demands, the fact
that these women married men with demanding careers, the
professionalization of stay-at-home motherhood, and broad failures
in public policy. 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. Moe and Shandy find,
for instance, that women who have downsized their careers stress
the value of social networks - of 'running with a pack of smart
women' who've also chosen to emphasize motherhood over paid work.
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