Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Opting Back In by Pamela Stone, Meg Lovejoy Taking a career break is a conflicted and risky decision for high-achieving professional women. Yet many do so, usually planning, even as they quit, to return to work eventually. But can they? And if so, how? In Opting Back In, Pamela Stone and Meg Lovejoy revisit women first interviewed a decade earlier in Stones book Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home to answer these questions. In frank and intimate accounts, women lay bare the dilemmas they face upon reentry. Most succeed but not by returning to their former high-paying, still family-inhospitable jobs. Instead, women strike out in new directions, finding personally gratifying but lower-paid jobs in the gig economy or predominantly female nonprofit sector. Opting Back In uncovers a paradox of privilege by which the very women best positioned to achieve leadership and close gender gaps use strategies to resume their careers that inadvertently reinforce gender inequality. The authors advocate gender equitable policies that will allow women—and all parents—to combine the intense demands of work and family life in the twenty-first century. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Flap "At yet another moment when the best and brightest are needed in our fast-changing workforce, Pamela Stone and Meg Lovejoy offer a valuable take on what one of Americas greatest resources--the smart, talented women who opted out of their careers to raise children--face when they return and the consequences for all women seeking to strike a work/life balance." --Judy Woodruff, anchor and managing editor of PBS NewsHour "A book we badly need. Stone and Lovejoy probe the lives of the very women who could and should be earning the same high salaries and leading the same companies and law firms as their male counterparts but are not. They demonstrate where and how the pipeline of female talent leaks, while also identifying paradoxes of privilege that reinforce existing power structures. It should be required reading at professional schools across the country." --Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America "A crucial book on a crucial subject. Building on their earlier influential study of high-achieving women who leave the workforce, Stone and Lovejoy trace the consequences of those decisions a decade later. Through these womens stories, Opting Back In offers a compelling and engaging account of how women can reinvent their careers, the challenges they face, and the policy reforms necessary to take advantage of their talent."--Deborah L. Rhode, E.W. McFarland Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Social Entrepreneurship, Stanford University "How do professional women opt back in after being out of the workforce to raise children? This fascinating and highly readable book provides a rare follow-up. The womens experiences reveal how, with inflexible workplaces, womens re-entry often emerged through re-invention. Opting Back In offers a thoughtful and engaging analysis of the power of gender today." --Annette Lareau, author of Unequal Childhoods "Stone and Lovejoy show clearly how womens cheerful language of reinvention veils status anxiety for childrens future in an age of increasing income inequality and disillusion with the often family-hostile and sexist atmosphere in high-stakes, high-status jobs." --Joan Williams, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for WorkLife Law, University of California Hastings College of Law "Stone and Lovejoy have done it again--improved our understanding of what many interpret as womens choices, in earlier work, to leave well-compensated professions to take care of family, and, in this book, to return after reinventing themselves, but often in less intense jobs in other fields. Jargon free and highly readable, Opting Back In shows that womens choices are far from freely chosen but are structured by the lack of flexibility in long-hour, high-level jobs. The authors tell us how patriarchy and capitalism operate in the upper strata in the early 21st century and what we can do about it to bring about real change for everyone."--Heidi Hartmann, President and CEO, Institute for Womens Policy Research "This book provides keen insights on challenges professional women face as they exit and later attempt to reestablish careers. Founded on rich data and crisply written, it is a must-read for anyone interested in work-family concerns." --Stephen Sweet, Executive Officer, Work and Family Researchers Network "Too often, discussion about the lack of women in leadership relies on inaccurate assumptions about why, when, and how high-achieving women pause or ratchet back their careers. Opting Back In offers a much-needed corrective to oversimplified narratives that obscure how the gendered expectations within organizations and families together restrict womens paths as they attempt to restart their careers and reactivate their identity as professionals. Perhaps most importantly, Stone and Lovejoy show that, far from being relevant only to a rarefied segment of the population, the trajectories of women who have left and returned to white-collar jobs can help us all better understand the nature of gender inequality and how it might be more effectively challenged." --Robin Ely, Harvard Business School "Demonstrates how the personal decisions of a group of elite women reverberate throughout our social world and become consequential both for those equally privileged and for those with far fewer advantages. Beautifully written and impeccably organized." --Margaret K. Nelson, coauthor of Random Families "Vividly captures the dilemma facing professional women wrestling with family obligations. Sympathetic and incisive, this book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the personal and public toll Americas lack of family policy enacts even on the advantaged." --Sharon Sassler, coauthor of Cohabitation Nation Author Biography Pamela Stone is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Opting Out?: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home.Meg Lovejoy, PhD, is a sociologist and Research Program Director for the Workplace and Well-being Initiative at the Harvard Center for Population and Development. Lovejoy was a lead researcher for Opting Out?: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home. Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Great Expectations 2. The Siren Call of Privileged Domesticity 3. Putting Family First: The Slow Return 4. Career Relaunch: Heeding the Call 5. Questing and Reinvention 6. The Big Picture 7. The Paradox of Privilege and Beyond Appendix. Study Methodology Notes References Index Review "Provides vital insights into the processes and consequences of career interruption for professional women who take time out for motherhood." * Gender and Society *"This book is richly descriptive and analytically subtle as it illuminates the social class dynamics among the privileged women interviewed." * American Journal of Sociology * Review Quote "Provides vital insights into the processes and consequences of career interruption for professional women who take time out for motherhood." Details ISBN0520290801 Author Meg Lovejoy Year 2019 ISBN-10 0520290801 ISBN-13 9780520290808 Format Hardcover Imprint University of California Press Subtitle What Really Happens When Mothers Go Back to Work Place of Publication Berkerley Country of Publication United States Pages 264 DEWEY 331.440973 Short Title Opting Back In Language English AU Release Date 2019-10-15 NZ Release Date 2019-10-15 US Release Date 2019-10-15 UK Release Date 2019-10-15 Illustrations 6 b-w figures Publisher University of California Press Publication Date 2019-10-15 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. 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ISBN-13: 9780520290808
Book Title: Opting Back In
Subject Area: Social Organisations
Item Height: 229mm
Item Width: 152mm
Author: Meg Lovejoy, Pamela Stone
Publication Name: Opting Back In: What Really Happens When Mothers Go Back to Work
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Zoology
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 544g
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
