Glass Ceilings and 100-Hour Couples: What the Opt-Out Phenomenon Can Teach Us about Work and Family

by Karine Moe and Dianna Shandy

Book Overview

When significant numbers of college-educated American women began, in the early twenty-first century, to leave paid work to become stay-at-home mothers, an emotionally charged national debate erupted. Karine Moe and Dianna Shandy, a professional economist and an anthropologist, respectively, decided to step back from the sometimes overheated rhetoric around the so-called mommy wars. They wondered what really inspired women to opt out, and they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820334049
• ISBN13: 9780820334042
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.0"