TY  - BOOK
AU  - Orgad,Shani
TI  - Heading home: motherhood, work, and the failed promise of equality 
SN  - 9780231545631
AV  - HD4904 .H433 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Work and family
KW  - Working mothers
KW  - Stay-at-home mothers
KW  - Women in the professions
KW  - Women executives
KW  - Sex discrimination in employment
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Intro; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Heading Home: Forced Choices; 1. Choice and Confidence Culture/Toxic Work Culture; 2. The Balanced Woman/Unequal Homes; Part II: Heading the Home: The Personal Consequences of Forced Choices; 3. Cupcake Mom/Family CEO; 4. Aberrant Mothers/Captive Wives; Part III: Heading Where? Curbed Desires; 5. The Mompreneur/Inarticulate Desire; 6. Inevitable Change/Invisible Chains; Conclusion: Impatience; Appendix 1: Interviewees' Key Characteristics; Appendix 2: List of Media and Policy Representations; Appendix 3: Study MethodologyAppendix 4: Characteristics of UK Stay-at-Home Mothers; Notes; Index; 2; b
N2  - Heading Home reveals the stark gap between the promise of gender equality and women's experience of continued injustice. It draws on in-depth interviews with highly educated London women who left paid employment to take care of their children, juxtaposed with media and policy depictions of women, work, and family
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