Sarah Damaske

For the Family?

How Class and Gender Shape Women's Work

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on research with 80 women, For the Family? debunks the myth that financial needs determine women's workforce participation, revealing that financial resources make it easier for women to remain at work, not easier to leave it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9780199791491
• ISBN-10: 019979149X
• Artikelnr.: 33253260

Autorenporträt

Sarah Damaske is a postdoctoral fellow in the Sociology Department at Rice University.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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