The wrenching decision facing successful women choosing between
demanding careers and intensive family lives has been the subject
of many articles and books, most of which propose strategies for
resolving the dilemma. "Competing Devotions" focuses on broader
social and cultural forces that create women's identities and shape
their understanding of what makes life worth living.
Mary Blair-Loy examines the career paths of women financial
executives who have tried various approaches to balancing career
and family. The professional level these women have attained
requires a huge commitment of time, energy, and emotion that seems
natural to employers and clients, who assume that a career deserves
single-minded allegiance. Meanwhile, these women must confront the
cultural model of family that defines marriage and motherhood as a
woman's primary vocation. This ideal promises women creativity,
intimacy, and financial stability in caring for a family. It
defines children as fragile and assumes that men lack the
selflessness and patience that children's primary caregivers need.
This ideal is taken for granted in much of contemporary
society.
The power of these assumptions is enormous but not absolute.
"Competing Devotions" identifies women executives who try to
reshape these ideas. These mavericks, who face great resistance but
are aided by new ideological and material resources that come with
historical change, may eventually redefine both the nuclear family
and the capitalist firm in ways that reduce work-family
conflict.
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