Mothers at Work : : Who Opts Out? /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Landivar, Liana Christin,
Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]
©2017
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (239 p.)
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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

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