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Opting Out?

Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home

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Opting Out?

Written by: Pamela Stone
Narrated by: Pamela Cronin
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With insight and compassion, Pamela Stone shows convincingly that, far from representing a return to tradition, the decision of some women to relinquish high-powered careers is a reluctant and conflict-ridden response to the growing mismatch between privatized families and time-demanding jobs. By charting the institutional obstacles and cultural pressures that continue to leave even the most advantaged women facing impossible options, Opting Out? gets beneath the hype and offers the real story behind the misleading headlines.

©2008 Pamela Stone (P)2007 University of California Press
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