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Author Wolf, Alison, author.

Title The XX factor : how the rise of working women has created a far less equal world / Alison Wolf.

Publication Info. New York : Crown, [2013]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  331.4 W831x 2013    ---  Available
Edition First American edition.
Description xvi, 393 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Goodbye to all that : the fracturing of sisterhood -- The rich get rich and the poor get children -- The return of the servant classes -- Pizza and partners -- Making it -- The way we live now -- Something to regret? -- Sex and the single graduate -- Working girls -- Pretty girls and the peacocks' tails -- One of your own kind -- Families unlimited.
Summary Explores how the growing number of professional women have impacted society, considering controversial perspectives on how the definition of female success has changed in ways that may not be supporting a woman's best interests.
Subject Women -- Employment -- History.
Women employees.
Women executives.
Women in the professions.
Work-life balance.
Work and family.
ISBN 0307590402
9780307590404
Standard No. 40022901586

 
    
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