For the Family? - How Class and Gender Shape Women's Work

Zusatztext Outstanding Academic Titles 2012, as selected by CHOICE Magazine (December 2012). Informationen zum Autor Sarah Damaske is a postdoctoral fellow in the Sociology Department at Rice University. Klappentext Based on research with 80 women, For the Family? debunks the myth that financial needs determine women's workforce participation, revealing that financial resources make it easier for women to remain at work, not easier to leave it. Zusammenfassung Based on research with 80 women, For the Family? debunks the myth that financial needs determine women's workforce participation, revealing that financial resources make it easier for women to remain at work, not easier to leave it.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Damaske, Damaske Sarah
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2011
• EAN: 9780199791507
• ISBN: 978-0-19-979150-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, Soziale Schichten, Arbeits- / Einkommensökonomie, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor, Sociology: family & relationships, Gender studies: women, Sociology: work & labour, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Gender studies: women and girls, Sociology: family and relationships, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General