My Mother Worked and I Turned Out — Scriptorium Liberum

Mothers at Work: Who Opts Out?

✍ Liana Christin Landivar 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Lynne Rienner Publishers 🌐 English

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 reduce the

📁 Help! I'm turning into my mother*

✍ Freeman.becky & Arnold.ruthie 📂 Library 🌐 English

Women Who Opt Out: The Debate over Worki

📁 Women Who Opt Out: The Debate over Working Mothers and Work-Family Balance

✍ Bernie D. Jones (ed.) 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 New York University Press 🌐 English

In a much-publicized and much-maligned 2003 New York Times article, “The Opt-Out Revolution,” the journalist Lisa Belkin made the controversial argument that highly educated women who enter the workplace tend to leave upon marrying and having children. Women Who Opt Out is a collection of original e

Women Who Opt Out: The Debate over Worki

📁 Women Who Opt Out: The Debate over Working Mothers and Work-Family Balance

✍ Bernie D. Jones (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 New York University Press 🌐 English

In a much-publicized and much-maligned 2003 New York Times article, “The Opt-Out Revolution,” the journalist Lisa Belkin made the controversial argument that highly educated women who enter the workplace tend to leave upon marrying and having children. Women Who Opt Out is a collection of origina

Learning Work: Turning Work and Lifelo

📁 Learning Work: Turning Work and Lifelong Learning Inside Out

✍ Linda Cooper, Shirley Walters (eds) 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Human Sciences Research Council 🌐 English

Thirty-four leading scholars from 10 countries challenge established understandings of lifelong learning and work in this provocative counter-narrative. Drawn from the Fifth International Researching Work and Learning Conference, this exploration offers a radical critique of the underlying societal

The Turk and My Mother

📁 The Turk and My Mother

✍ Mary Helen Stefaniak 📂 Fiction 📅 2005 🏛 W. W. Norton & Company 🌐 English

Winner of the John Gardner Fiction Book Award "Fans of Amy Tan and Carol Shields will revel in the themes of remembrance, forgiveness, family devotion, and forbidden love." —Booklist Every family has its secrets. But toward the end of his life, George deci