XX Factor How the Rise of Working Women Has Created a Far Less Equal World

Name: XX Factor How the Rise of Working Women Has Created a Far Less Equal World
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ISBN: 9780307590404

ISBN-10: 0307590402

ISBN-13: 9780307590404

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Authors: Alison Wolf

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Noted British academic and journalist Alison Wolf offers a surprising and thoughtful study of the professional elite, and examines the causes—and limits—of women’s rise and the consequences of their difficult choices.The gender gap is closing. Today, for the first time in history, tens of millions of women are spending more time at the boardroom table than the kitchen table. These professional women are highly ambitious and highly educated, enjoying the same lifestyle prerogatives as their male counterparts. They are working longer and marrying later—if they marry at all. They are heading Fortune 500 companies and appearing on the covers of Forbes and Businessweek. They represent a special…

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List price: $26.00
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386



Introduction



Women in the Workforce-A House Divided



Goodbye to All That: The Fracturing of Sisterhood



The Rich Get Rich and the Poor Get Children



The Return of the Servant Classes



Pizza and Partners



Making It



The Way We Live Now



Something to Regret?



Domestic Spheres Made New-Women, Men and Families



Sex and the Single Graduate



Working Girls



Pretty Girls and Peacocks' Tails



One of Your Own Kind



Families Unlimited


Conclusion


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index