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Free Teacher's Guide available for Childhood in America! An
essential collection of sources on American childhood for teachers
Childhood in America is a unique compendium of sources on American
childhood that has many options for classroom adoptions and can be
tailored to individual course needs. Because the subject of
childhood is both relatively new on campuses and now widely
recognized as vital to a range of specialties, the editors have
prepared a Teacher's Guide to assist you in making selections
appropriate for your courses. Collecting a vast array of selections
from past and present- from colonial ministers to Drs. Benjamin
Spock and T. Berry Brazelton, from the poems of Anne Bradstreet to
the writings of today's young people- Childhood in America brings
to light the central issues surrounding American children. Eleven
sections on childbirth through adolescence explore a cornucopia of
issues, and each section has been carefully selected and introduced
by the editors.
In the past few decades the number of women entering graduate and
professional schools has been going up and up, while the number of
women reaching the top rung of the corporate and academic worlds
has remained relatively stagnant. Why are so many women falling off
the fast track?
In this timely book, Mary Ann Mason traces the career paths of the
first generation of ambitious women who started careers in
academia, law, medicine, business, and the media in large numbers
in the 1970s and '80s. Many women who had started families but
continued working had ended up veering off the path to upper
management at a point she calls "the second glass ceiling." Rather
than sticking to their original career goals, they allowed
themselves to slide into a second tier of management that offers
fewer hours, less pay, lower prestige, and limited upward mobility.
Men who did likewise--entered the career world with high
aspirations and then started families while working--not only did
not show the same trend, they reached even higher levels of
professional success than men who had no families at all.
Along with her daughter, an aspiring journalist, Mason has written
a guide for young women who are facing the tough decision of
when--and if--to start a family. It is also a guide for older women
seeking a second chance to break through to the next level, as
Mason herself did in academia. The book features anecdotes and
strategies from the dozens of women they interviewed. Advice ranges
from the personal (know when to say "no," the importance of time
management) to the institutional, with suggestions for how the
workplace itself can be changed to make it easier for ambitious
working mothers to reach the top levels. The result is a roadmap of
new choices for women facing the sobering question of how to
balance a successful career with family.
In the past few decades the number of women entering graduate and
professional schools has been going up and up, while the number of
women reaching the top rung of the corporate and academic worlds
has remained relatively stagnant. Why are so many women falling off
the fast track?
In this timely book, Mary Ann Mason traces the career paths of the
first generation of ambitious women who started careers in
academia, law, medicine, business, and the media in large numbers
in the 1970s and '80s. Many women who had started families but
continued working had ended up veering off the path to upper
management at a point she calls "the second glass ceiling." Rather
than sticking to their original career goals, they allowed
themselves to slide into a second tier of management that offers
fewer hours, less pay, lower prestige, and limited upward mobility.
Men who did likewise--entered the career world with high
aspirations and then started families while working--not only did
not show the same trend, they reached even higher levels of
professional success than men who had no families at all.
Along with her daughter, an aspiring journalist, Mason has written
a guide for young women who are facing the tough decision of
when--and if--to start a family. It is also a guide for older women
seeking a second chance to break through to the next level, as
Mason herself did in academia. The book features anecdotes and
strategies from the dozens of women they interviewed. Advice ranges
from the personal (know when to say "no," the importance of time
management) to the institutional, with suggestions for how the
workplace itself can be changed to make it easier for ambitious
working mothers to reach the top levels. The result is a roadmap of
new choices for women facing the sobering question of how to
balance a successful career with family.
All Our Families, a project of the Berkeley Forum on the Family, takes a hard look at contemporary families and family structure. The book challenges the conventional wisdom that the American family is disintegrating. Its essays argue that comparing today's family to an imagined typical family of the past - stable, middle class, working father, stay-at-home mother, is dishonest and wrongheaded. Most American families are not, and never were, like that. In contrast, All Our Families considers seriously all of today's types of families, not just the "ideal" ones or the "failures". For the second edition, all essays have been revised and updated, and two new essays - one on immigrated families and one on ambiguous-father families - have been added.
The new generation of scholars differs in many ways from its
predecessor of just a few decades ago. Academia once consisted
largely of men in traditional single-earner families. Today, men
and women fill the doctoral student ranks in nearly equal numbers
and most will experience both the benefits and challenges of living
in dual-income households. This generation also has new
expectations and values, notably the desire for flexibility and
balance between careers and other life goals. However, changes to
the structure and culture of academia have not kept pace with young
scholars' desires for work-family balance.
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Do Babies Matter?" is the first comprehensive examination of the
relationship between family formation and the academic careers of
men and women. The book begins with graduate students and
postdoctoral fellows, moves on to early and mid-career years, and
ends with retirement. Individual chapters examine graduate school,
how recent PhD recipients get into the academic game, the tenure
process, and life after tenure. The authors explore the family
sacrifices women often have to make to get ahead in academia and
consider how gender and family interact to affect promotion to full
professor, salaries, and retirement. Concrete strategies are
suggested for transforming the university into a family-friendly
environment at every career stage.
The book draws on over a decade of research using unprecedented
data resources, including the Survey of Doctorate Recipients, a
nationally representative panel survey of PhDs in America, and
multiple surveys of faculty and graduate students at the ten-campus
University of California system..
Combining historical and legal scholarship, this is an analysis of
the history of child custody in the USA from colonial times to the
present day. It draws on history to illuminate contemporary issues,
offering a rich perspective on the historical relationship of
children to their parents. The author draws on three periods of
pivotal change in social attitudes and the law, connecting these
transformations to the changing status of women and the increasing
power of mothers. He describes how the present move away from
maternal preference toward equal custodial rights has been promoted
by feminists' struggle for equal political rights and a new theory
of equal parenting adopted by social scientists. Includes a new
preface by the author.
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