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Lovejoy Meg - Opting Back In What Really Happens When Mothers Go Back To Work - Hardcover
Lovejoy Meg - Opting Back In What Really Happens When Mothers Go Back To Work - Hardcover
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Description: Taking a career break is a conflicted and risky decision for high - achieving professional women. Yet many do so usually planning even as they quit to return to work eventually. But can they? And if so how? In Opting Back In Pamela Stone and Meg Lovejoy revisit women first interviewed a decade earlier in Stone's book Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home to answer these questions. In frank and intimate accounts women lay bare the dilemmas they face upon reentry. Most succeed but not by returning to their former high - paying still family - inhospitable jobs. Instead women strike out in new directions finding personally gratifying but lower - paid jobs in the gig economy or predominantly female nonprofit sector. Opting Back In uncovers a paradox of privilege by which the very women best positioned to achieve leadership and close gender gaps use strategies to resume their careers that inadvertently reinforce gender inequality. The authors advocate gender equitable policies that will allow women and all parents to combine the intense demands of work and family life in the twenty - first century.
Title: Opting Back In What Really Happens When Mothers Go Back To Work
Author(s): Lovejoy Meg
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520290808
Pages: 264 Pages, 6 B-W Figures
Publication Date: 10/15/2019
Category: Gender Studies: Women
Description: Taking a career break is a conflicted and risky decision for high - achieving professional women. Yet many do so usually planning even as they quit to return to work eventually. But can they? And if so how? In Opting Back In Pamela Stone and Meg Lovejoy revisit women first interviewed a decade earlier in Stone's book Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home to answer these questions. In frank and intimate accounts women lay bare the dilemmas they face upon reentry. Most succeed but not by returning to their former high - paying still family - inhospitable jobs. Instead women strike out in new directions finding personally gratifying but lower - paid jobs in the gig economy or predominantly female nonprofit sector. Opting Back In uncovers a paradox of privilege by which the very women best positioned to achieve leadership and close gender gaps use strategies to resume their careers that inadvertently reinforce gender inequality. The authors advocate gender equitable policies that will allow women and all parents to combine the intense demands of work and family life in the twenty - first century.
Title: Opting Back In What Really Happens When Mothers Go Back To Work
Author(s): Lovejoy Meg
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520290808
Pages: 264 Pages, 6 B-W Figures
Publication Date: 10/15/2019
Category: Gender Studies: Women
