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Author Stone, Pamela.

Title Opting out? : why women really quit careers and head home / Pamela Stone.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
©2007

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.8743 S879O    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index.
Contents List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The dream team -- 2. Family matters -- 3. Home alone -- 4. Gilded cages -- 5. The choice gap -- 6. Half-full, half-empty -- 7. Mothers of re-invention -- 8. Cocooning : the drift to domesticity -- 9. Dreams and visions : getting there -- Appendix : Study methodology -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Subject Stay-at-home mothers.
Work and family.
Choice (Psychology)
Life change events.
ISBN 9780520244351 cloth alkaline paper
0520244354 cloth alkaline paper
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