Description: Opting Back in : What Really Happens When Mothers Go Back to Work, Paperback by Stone, Pamela; Lovejoy, Meg, ISBN 0520290828, ISBN-13 9780520290822, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 Stone&;s 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.
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Book Title: Opting Back in : What Really Happens When Mothers Go Back to Work
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Gender Studies, Parenting / Motherhood, Women's Studies, Corporate & Business History
Genre: Family & Relationships, Social Science, Business & Economics
Item Weight: 12.8 Oz
Author: Meg Lovejoy, Pamela Stone
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
