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Author Moe, Karine S.

Title Glass ceilings and 100-hour couples [electronic resource] : what the opt-out phenomenon can teach us about work and family / Karine Moe and Dianna Shandy.

Imprint Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiv, 215 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Numbers too big to ignore -- Why opting out is an everywoman issue -- The 100-hour couple -- Glass ceilings and maternal walls -- Second shift redux -- Child care dilemmas -- Mama time -- The hectic household -- The professionalization of at-home motherhood -- Financial costs -- Negotiating without a paycheck -- Reigniting the career -- Creative strategies for making work "work" -- Coming of age in America.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Work and family -- United States.
Working mothers -- United States.
Stay-at-home mothers -- United States.
Women -- Employment -- United States.
Dual-career families -- United States.
Glass ceiling (Employment discrimination) -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Shandy, Dianna J.
ProQuest (Firm)
Cover Title Glass ceilings & 100-hour couples
Added Title Glass ceilings and one hundred-hour couples
ISBN 9780820331546 (cloth : alk. paper)
0820331546 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820334042 (cloth : alk. paper)
0820334049 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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