| Description |
xiv, 284 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : learning about women and their work through their own accounts / Nia Lane Chester and Hildreth Y. Grossman -- Women's experience of power over others : case studies of psychotherapists and professors / Hildreth Y. Grossman and Abigail J. Stewart -- Women supporting women : secretaries and their bosses / Virginia E. O'Leary and Jeannette Ickovics -- The pregnant therapist : professional and personal worlds intertwine / Hildreth Y. Grossman -- Achievement motivation and employment decisions : portraits of women with young children / Nia Lane Chester -- Women's employment patterns and midlife well-being / Jacquelyn B. James -- Divorce and work life among women managers / Faye J. Crosby -- Crossing boundaries between professional and private life / Judith Richter -- "Liberated to work like dogs!" : labeling Black women and their work / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes -- Work, relationships, and balance in the lives of gifted women / Diane Tickton Schuster -- The working lives of Terman's gifted women / Carol Tomlinson-Keasey -- Blue-collar women : paying the price at home on the job / Jean Reith Schroedel -- Discovering the meanings of work / Abigail J. Stewart. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Subject |
Women -- Employment -- United States.
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Work and family -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Grossman, Hildreth Y.
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Chester, Nia Lane.
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| ISBN |
0805802460 |
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0805802479 paperback |
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