Ambition and Accommodation: How Women View Gender Relations

by Roberta S. Sigel

Book Overview

What do ordinary citizens really think about issues of gender equality and gender roles? Combining data from both telephone surveys and in-depth focus groups, Ambition and Accommodation provides the most detailed portrait to date of how Americans, in particular American women, think they are faring in today's society.

By juxtaposing the voices of women and men from all walks of life, Sigel finds that women's perceptions of gender relations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226756963
• ISBN13: 9780226756967
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"