Women Who Opt Out
The Debate Over Working Mothers and Work-Family Balance
$62.99
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2012
Summary
In a much-publicized and much-maligned 2003 New York Times article, “The Opt-Out Revolution,” the journalist Lisa Belkin made the controversial argument that highly educated women who enter the workplace tend to leave upon marrying and having children. Women Who Opt Out is a collection of original essays by the leading scholars in the field of work and family research, which takes a multi-disciplinary approach in questioning the basic thesis of “the opt-out revolution.” The contributors il…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780814743133 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0814743137 |
| Author: | Bernie D. Jones |
| Publisher: | New York University Press |
| Imprint: | New York University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2012 |
| Weight: | 336g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“This timely book is a significant contribution to the sociology of family and work and gender roles…highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above.”- CHOICE ,
“This stellar collection provides a much-needed overview of the diverse obstacles facing women - and men - of all classes, life stages, and social backgrounds.” Kathleen Gerson, author of The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family “In clear and compelling prose, the essays in this superb collection offer an important corrective to the notion that women freely choose to leave employment.” Margaret K. Nelson, author of Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times
Bernie D. Jones
Bernie D. Jones is Associate Professor of Law at the Suffolk University Law School and author of Fathers of Conscience: Mixed Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South.
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