For the family? how class and gender shape women's work /
"In the emotional public debate about women and work, conventional wisdom holds that middle-class women "choose" whether or not to work, while working class "need" to work. Yet, despite the recent economic crisis, national trends show that middle-class women are more likely...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press, USA,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
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- CHAPTER 1: Women's Work Trajectories: Need, Choice and Women's Strategies
- PART I: EXPECTATIONS ABOUT WORK
- CHAPTER 2: The Shape of Women's Work Pathways
- CHAPTER 3: A Major Career Woman? How Women Develop Early Expectations about Work
- PART II: WORK PATHWAYS
- CHAPTER 4: Staying Steady: Good Work and Family Support Across Classes
- CHAPTER 5: Pulling Back: Divergent Routes to Similar Pathways
- CHAPTER 6: A Life Interrupted
- PART III: NEGOTIATING EXPECTATIONS
- CHAPTER 7: For the Family: How Women Account for Work Decisions
- CHAPTER 8: Having it All? Egalitarian Dreams Deferred
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index.