Mothers at Work : : Who Opts Out? / / Liana Christin Landivar.
Though a majority of mothers of young children are employed outside the home, countless articles have been devoted to anecdotes about highly educated women in high-status occupations "opting out" of the labor force. Are mothers in these occupations in fact the most likely to opt out or red...
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Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Opt-Out Narrative
- 2 Changes in Employment Policies and Cultural Attitudes
- 3 Employed Mothers Become the Norm
- 4 Doctors or Dishwashers? A Look at Who Opts Out
- 5 Opting to Stay: Schedule Flexibility and Reduced Work Hours
- 6 Does Age Matter?
- 7 The Motherhood Wage Gap and Delayed Fertility
- 8 Looking at the Big Picture
- Appendixes
- Appendix A. Occupation Categories
- Appendix B. Descriptive Statistics
- Appendix C. What About Fathers?
- Appendix D. Occupation Coefficients Derived from Hierarchical Models
- Appendix E. Women’s Earnings
- Appendix F. Data Sources
- References
- Index
- About the Book