Work-Family Role Choices for Women in Their 20s and 30s: From College Plans to Life Experiences

by Cherlyn Skromme Granrose and Eileen Kaplan

This study follows over 200 women making employment and family choices during their first decade after college graduation. Based on interview responses, the authors organize the women into four life choice categories: Careerists, Homemakers, Breadwinners, and Nesters. Using models of adult change as well as extensive quotes and empirical analyses, the authors identify the facilitators and barriers for each alternative. Women relate the consequences...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275955257
• ISBN13: 9780275955250
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"