Stone, Pamela.

Opting out? : why women really quit careers and head home / Pamela Stone. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. - xviii, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index.

The dream team -- Family matters -- Home alone -- Gilded cages -- The choice gap -- Half-full, half-empty -- Mothers of re-invention -- Cocooning: the drift to domesticity -- Dreams and visions: getting there -- Appendix. Study methodology.

9780520244351 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520244354 (cloth : alk. paper)

2007006566

GBA722351 bnb

013699272 Uk


Stay-at-home mothers.
Work and family.
Choice (Psychology)
Life change events.

HQ759.46 / .S86 2007

306.874/3