Title Heading home : motherhood, work, and the failed promise of equality / Shani Orgad.

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New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]

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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Contents	Intro; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Heading Home: Forced Choices; 1. Choice and Confidence Culture/Toxic Work Culture; 2. The Balanced Woman/Unequal Homes; Part II: Heading the Home: The Personal Consequences of Forced Choices; 3. Cupcake Mom/Family CEO; 4. Aberrant Mothers/Captive Wives; Part III: Heading Where? Curbed Desires; 5. The Mompreneur/Inarticulate Desire; 6. Inevitable Change/Invisible Chains; Conclusion: Impatience; Appendix 1: Interviewees' Key Characteristics; Appendix 2: List of Media and Policy Representations
	Appendix 3: Study MethodologyAppendix 4: Characteristics of UK Stay-at-Home Mothers; Notes; Index
Summary	Heading Home reveals the stark gap between the promise of gender equality and women's experience of continued injustice. It draws on in-depth interviews with highly educated London women who left paid employment to take care of their children, juxtaposed with media and policy depictions of women, work, and family.
Subject	Work and family.
	Working mothers.
	Stay-at-home mothers.
	Women in the professions.
	Women executives.
	Sex discrimination in employment.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Workplace Culture.
	Sex discrimination in employment. (OCoLC)fst01114408
	Stay-at-home mothers. (OCoLC)fst01738684
	Women executives. (OCoLC)fst01177651
	Women in the professions. (OCoLC)fst01178044
	Work and family. (OCoLC)fst01180235
	Working mothers. (OCoLC)fst01180647
Other Form:	Print version: Orgad, Shani, 1972- author. Heading home New York : Columbia University Press, [2019] 9780231184724 (DLC) 2018024035
ISBN	9780231545631 (e-book)

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