Mothers on the Fast Track
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-537369-1 (ISBN)
"Lots of excellent advice for women facing different career stages."
-BusinessWeek
"An interesting look at the real challenges that mothers face in balancing work and family in a variety of professions."
--National Review
"Must reading for professional women starting families, second chapters or simply trying to break through to the next level. An indispensable guide and realistic cost-benefit analysis of motherhood and women's careers."
-- Lynn Povich, former Editor-in-Chief of Working Woman magazine
Mary Ann Mason is the first woman to be appointed Graduate Dean at University of California, Berkeley. A former lawyer, she can speak from personal experience about the struggle to balance family responsibilities and a fast-track career. A national expert on child custody issues, Mason is author of From Father's Property to Children's Rights, The Custody Wars, and The Equality Trap. Eve Mason Ekman is a medical social worker in the San Francisco County General Hospital Emergency room and also curates art exhibits locally and nationally. She has a Masters in Social Work from the University of California where she was the editor, founder and art director of an interdisciplinary publication between the schools of Journalism and Social Welfare.
Acknowledgments ; Introduction: Do Babies Matter? Mothers on the Fast Track ; 1. The "Mother Problem": Up, Out, or Sidelined? ; 2. The Student Years: Eighteen to Thirty-Two ; 3. The Make-or-Break Years: Thirty to Forty ; 4. Mothers' Choices: Staying the Course, Opting Out, or Dropping Down ; 5. The Second Tier ; 6. Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Forty to Sixty-Five and Beyond ; 7. Second Chances for Mothers on the Fast Track ; Notes ; Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.11.2009 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 142 x 221 mm |
Gewicht | 249 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-537369-3 / 0195373693 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-537369-1 / 9780195373691 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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