Mothers on the fast track : how a new generation can balance family and careers / Mary Ann Mason and Eve Mason Ekman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mason, Mary Ann.

Contributor:

Ekman, Eve Mason.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working mothers--United States--Case studies.

Working mothers.

Mothers--Employment--United States--Case studies.

Mothers.

Work and family--United States--Case studies.

Work and family.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the past few decades the number of women entering graduate and professional schools has been going up and up, while the number of women reaching the top rung of the corporate and academic worlds has remained relatively stagnant. Why are so many women falling off the fast track? In this timely book, Mary Ann Mason traces the career paths of the first generation of ambitious women who started careers in academia, law, medicine, business, and the media in large numbers in the 1970's and '80's. Many women who had started families but continued working had ended up veering off the path to upper...

Contents:

Introduction: Do babies matter? Mothers on the fast track

The "mother problem": up, out, or sidelined?

The student years : eighteen to thirty-two

The make-or-break years: thirty to forty

Mothers' choices: staying the course, opting out, or dropping down

The second tier

Beyond the glass ceiling: forty to sixty-five and beyond

Second chances for mothers on the fast track.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-136) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-537369-3

1-281-16255-8

0-19-804027-X

9786611162559

1-4356-1778-9

OCLC:

476243311