Opting Into Motherhood
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Opting Into Motherhood
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Author : Gillian A. Dunne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Opting Into Motherhood written by Gillian A. Dunne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
Opting Into Motherhood
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Author : Gillian A. Dunne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Opting Into Motherhood written by Gillian A. Dunne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Human services categories.
Opting Into Motherhood
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Author : Gillian A. Dunne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Opting Into Motherhood written by Gillian A. Dunne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Artificial insemination, Human categories.
Opting In
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Author : Amy Richards
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2008-04-29
Opting In written by Amy Richards and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-29 with Family & Relationships categories.
For contemporary women, motherhood has become as polarizing a proposition as it is a powerful calling. For some women this tension is manifest in a debate over whether or not to have children. For others it concerns whether to stay at home with their children or stay in the workforce. Still others feel abandoned altogether by the supposedly pro-family and pro-mother social justice movement that is feminism and are at a loss when it comes to reconciling their maternal instincts with their political beliefs. With Opting In, Amy Richards addresses the anxiety over parenting that women face today in a book that mixes memoir, interviews, historical analysis, and feminist insight. In her refreshingly direct and thoughtful approach, Richards covers everything from the truth about our biological clocks and the trends toward extending fertility, to parenting with nature and nurturing in mind, to our relationship with our own mothers, to what feminism's relationship to motherhood is and always has been. Speaking from the vantage point of someone who is both a parent and one of our leading feminist activists, Richards cuts through the cacophony of voices intent on telling women the "appropriate" way to be a mother and reveals instead how to confidently forge your own path while staying true to yourself and your ideals.
Opting Back In
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Author : Pamela Stone
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2021-02-23
Opting Back In written by Pamela Stone and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-23 with Business & Economics categories.
Interrupting a professional career is, for women who opt out, a conflicted decision of last resort. Most women envision returning to the labor force even as they leave it. But can they? Drawing on unique research that follows up women first interviewed for Opting Out?, this book profiles the efforts of a group of high-achieving women to go back to work. The good news is that these women, who are able to draw on considerable resources, are successful. The bad news is that they face cross pressures of class and gender that create what we call the paradox of privilege, which reinforces gender inequality in the family and workplace and results in re-entry strategies that either marginalize them as contingent workers or, for the sizeable fraction who radically reinvent themselves, segregate them in female-dominated fields. The book offers an in-depth look at the pressures high-potential women face as they struggle with the mixed signals of their class privilege - promise compromised by patriarchy - and offers up-close and personal insights in to how the twin pillars of gender inequality - the leadership and wage gaps - are created and maintained by the very women expected to transcend them. -- Provided by publisher.
Mothers At Work
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Author : Liana Christin Landivar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Mothers At Work written by Liana Christin Landivar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Mothers categories.
Though it remains true that a majority of mothers of small children are employed outside the home, since the late 1990s there has been a decline in their actual rate of participation in the labor force. What explains this decline? Are opt-out rates and work-hour reductions consistent across occupations? Do race, ethnicity, or age of children play a role? Addressing these questions in a wide-ranging study, Liana Christin Landivar sheds important new light on the motherhood-employment link. Liana Christin Landivar is a sociologist and senior statistician in the Industry and Occupation Statistics Branch at the US Census Bureau.
Choosing Single Motherhood
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Author : Mikki Morrissette
language : en
Publisher: Be-Mondo Publishing
Release Date : 2006-04
Choosing Single Motherhood written by Mikki Morrissette and has been published by Be-Mondo Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04 with Family & Relationships categories.
The first comprehensive resource book available for women who have chosen, or are thinking of choosing, single motherhood. Based on extensive research, advice from child experts and family therapists, and conversations with more than one hundred ?thinkers? and single mothers, this book funnels twenty-five years of hindsight into up-to-date insight on all aspects of the Choice Motherhood movement. From how to answer a child's ?daddy? questions to the pros and cons of using a known donor to how the children of pioneering Choice Moms feel about the lifestyle, this book is the one resource needed by every woman who makes this decision.
Single By Chance Mothers By Choice How Women Are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage And Creating The New American Family
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Author : Rosanna Hertz
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2006-10-01
Single By Chance Mothers By Choice How Women Are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage And Creating The New American Family written by Rosanna Hertz and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-01 with Social Science categories.
A remarkable number of women today are taking the daunting step of having children outside of marriage. In Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice, Rosanna Hertz offers the first full-scale account of this fast-growing phenomenon, revealing why these middle class women took this unorthodox path and how they have managed to make single parenthood work for them. Hertz interviewed 65 women--ranging from physicians and financial analysts to social workers, teachers, and secretaries--women who speak candidly about how they manage their lives and families as single mothers. What Hertz discovers are not ideologues but reluctant revolutionaries, women who--whether straight or gay--struggle to conform to the conventional definitions of mother, child, and family. Having tossed out the rulebook in order to become mothers, they nonetheless adhere to time-honored rules about child-rearing. As they tell their stories, they shed light on their paths to motherhood, describing how they summoned up the courage to pursue their dream, how they broke the news to parents, siblings, friends, and co-workers, how they went about buying sperm from fertility banks or adopting children of different races. They recount how their personal and social histories intersected to enable them to pursue their dream of motherhood, and how they navigate daily life. What does it mean to be single in terms of romance and parenting? How do women juggle earning a paycheck with parenting? What creative ways have women devised to shore up these families? How do they incorporate men into their child-centered families? This book provides concrete, informative answers to all these questions. A unique window on the future of the family, this book offers a gold mine of insight and reassurance for any woman contemplating this rewarding if unconventional step.
Regretting Motherhood
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Author : Orna Donath
language : en
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2017-07-11
Regretting Motherhood written by Orna Donath and has been published by North Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-11 with Social Science categories.
A provocative and deeply important study of women’s lives, women’s choices—and an ‘unspoken taboo’—that questions the societal pressures forcing women into motherhood Women who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in life, yet we rarely talk about the possibility that the opposite might also be true—that women who have children might regret it. Drawing on years of research interviewing women from a variety of socioeconomic, educational, and professional backgrounds, sociologist Orna Donath treats regret as a feminist issue: as regret marks the road not taken, we need to consider whether alternative paths for women currently are blocked off. She asks that we pay attention to what is forbidden by rules governing motherhood, time, and emotion, including the cultural assumption that motherhood is a “natural” role for women—for the sake of all women, not just those who regret becoming mothers. If we are disturbed by the idea that a woman might regret becoming a mother, Donath says, our response should not be to silence and shame these women; rather, we need to ask honest and difficult questions about how society pushes women into motherhood and why those who reconsider it are still seen as a danger to the status quo. Groundbreaking, thoughtful, and provocative, this is an especially needed book in our current political climate, as women's reproductive rights continue to be at the forefront of national debates.
Women Who Opt Out
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Author : Bernie D. Jones
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2012-04-02
Women Who Opt Out written by Bernie D. Jones and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-02 with Social Science categories.
In a much-publicized and much-maligned 2003 New York Times article, “The Opt-Out Revolution,” the journalist Lisa Belkin made the controversial argument that highly educated women who enter the workplace tend to leave upon marrying and having children. Women Who Opt Out is a collection of original essays by the leading scholars in the field of work and family research, which takes a multi-disciplinary approach in questioning the basic thesis of “the opt-out revolution.” The contributors illustrate that the desire to balance both work and family demands continues to be a point of unresolved concern for families and employers alike and women’s equity within the workforce still falls behind. Ultimately, they persuasively make the case that most women who leave the workplace are being pushed out by a work environment that is hostile to women, hostile to children, and hostile to the demands of family caregiving, and that small changes in outdated workplace policies regarding scheduling, flexibility, telecommuting and mandatory overtime can lead to important benefits for workers and employers alike. Contributors: Kerstin Aumann, Jamie Dolkas, Ellen Galinsky, Lisa Ackerly Hernandez, Susan J. Lambert, Joya Misra, Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Peggie R. Smith, Pamela Stone, and Joan C. Williams. Listen to Bernie D. Jones on WPYR Radio: Mothers and the delicate work-family balance