Heading Home - Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality Orgad ShaniPevná vazba
Heading Home - Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality Orgad ShaniPevná vazba Women in today's advanced capitalist societies are encouraged to "lean in." The media and government…
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Heading Home - Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality Orgad ShaniPevná vazba
Women in today's advanced capitalist societies are encouraged to "lean in." The media and government champion women's empowerment. How do they feel about their decision and what do their stories tell us about contemporary society?Heading Home reveals the stark gap between the promise of gender equality and women's experience of continued injustice. In a cultural climate where women can seemingly have it all, why do so many successful professional women--lawyers, financial managers, teachers, engineers, and others--give up their careers after having children and become stay-at-home mothers?
Despite identifying the structural forces that maintain Shani Orgad draws on in-depth, personal, and profoundly ambivalent interviews with highly educated London women who left paid employment to take care of their children while their husbands continued to work in high-powered jobs.
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