Glass Ceilings and 100-Hour Couples - What the Opt-Out Phenomenon Can Teach Us About Work and Family

Informationen zum Autor DIANNA SHANDY is an associate professor of anthropology at Macalester College. She is the author of Nuer-American Passages: Globalizing Sudanese Migration . Klappentext Examines the many pressures that influence a woman's decision to resign! reduce! or reorient her career. This book states that women who have downsized their careers stress the value of social networks - of 'running with a pack of smart women' who've also chosen to emphasize motherhood over paid work.

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• Authors: Karine Moe, Karine/ Shandy Moe, Dianna Shandy
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2009
• EAN: 9780820334042
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3404-2
• No. of pages: 215
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Gender Studies, Soziologie: Familie und Beziehungen, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, Arbeits- / Einkommensökonomie, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Women in Business