Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home

Name: Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home
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ISBN: 9780520256576

ISBN-10: 0520256573

ISBN-13: 9780520256576

Edition: 2008

Authors: Pamela Stone

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Noting a phenomenon that might seem to recall a previous era, The New York Times Magazine recently portrayed women who leave their careers in order to become full-time mothers as "opting out." But, are high-achieving professional women really choosing to abandon their careers in order to return home? This provocative study is the first to tackle this issue from the perspective of the women themselves. Based on a series of candid, in-depth interviews with women who returned home after working as doctors, lawyers, bankers, scientists, and other professions, Pamela Stone explores the role that their husbands, children, and coworkers play in their decision; how women's efforts to construct new…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Pamela Stoneis Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Dream Team



Family Matters



Home Alone



Gilded Cages



The Choice Gap



Half-Full, Half-Empty



Mothers of Re-Invention



Cocooning: The Drift to Domesticity



Dreams and Visions: Getting There



Study Methodology


Notes


References


Index