001478228 000__ 06963nam\a22009015i\4500 001478228 001__ 1478228 001478228 003__ DE-B1597 001478228 005__ 20231026034852.0 001478228 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478228 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478228 008__ 221201t20052005mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478228 020__ $$a9780674021594 001478228 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674021594$$2doi 001478228 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)584852 001478228 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1322125610 001478228 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478228 0410_ $$aeng 001478228 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478228 050_4 $$aHD4904.25 ǂb B57 2003eb 001478228 072_7 $$aSOC026000$$2bisacsh 001478228 08204 $$a305.43/658 001478228 1001_ $$aBlair-Loy, Mary, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001478228 24510 $$aCompeting Devotions :$$bCareer and Family among Women Executives /$$cMary Blair-Loy. 001478228 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2005] 001478228 264_4 $$c©2005 001478228 300__ $$a1 online resource (288 p.) 001478228 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478228 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478228 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478228 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478228 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tCONTENTS -- $$tINTRODUCTION -- $$t1 THE DEVOTION TO WORK SCHEMA -- $$t2 THE DEVOTION TO FAMILY SCHEMA -- $$t3 REINVENTINGSCHEMAS:CREATINGPART-TIMECAREERS -- $$t4 REINVENTING SCHEMAS: FAMILY LIFE AMONG FULL-TIME EXECUTIVE WOMEN -- $$t5 TURNING POINTS -- $$t6 IMPLICATIONS -- $$tAPPENDIX: METHODS AND DATA -- $$tNOTES -- $$tREFERENCES -- $$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $$tINDEX 001478228 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478228 520__ $$aThe wrenching decision facing successful women who must choose between demanding careers and intensive family lives has been the subject of many articles and books, most of which propose strategies for resolving the dilemma. Competing Devotions focuses on broader social and cultural forces that create women's identities and shape their understanding of what makes life worth living. Mary Blair-Loy examines the career paths of women financial executives who have tried various approaches to balancing career and family. These mavericks, who face great resistance but are aided by new ideological and material resources that come with historical change, may eventually redefine both the nuclear family and the capitalist firm in ways that reduce work-family conflict.Table of Contents: Introduction 1 The Devotion to Work Schema 2 The Devotion to Family Schema 3 Reinventing Schemas: Creating Part-Time Careers 4 Reinventing Schemas: Family Life among Full-Time Executive Women 5 Turning Points 6 Implications Appendix: Methods and Data Notes References Acknowledgments Index Many professional women intuit that male colleagues whose spouse handle for them the details of everyday life are favored in the workplace. Blair-Loy confirms this intuition and shows us how it happens. She captures how the cultural schemas of "family devotion" and "work devotion" contribute to the reproduction of gender inequality, and how meeting the demands of a husband's job and other people's needs push professional women to progressively abandon their work to take care of others. Her analysis also gives us hope by comparing the fate of pre and post-baby boomers. This is both an important scholarly contribution and a book that will help readers think differently about their lives. It should be required reading for professional women who aspire to maintain multidimensional lives.--Mich'le Lamont, author of The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and ImmigrationThis is a fascinating book with an important message. Blair-Loy's findings are surprising. She challenges conventional viewpoints. She is on to something really new when she writes about not only the interplay between cultural norms and individual actions (and institutional structures) but on the cultural schemas that evoke deep emotional resonances. An outstanding book.--Cynthia Fuchs-Epstein, author of Deceptive Distinctions: Sex, Gender and the Social OrderMary Blair-Loy's book transcends old debates about work and family by examining the women who have beaten the odds and risen to the top. Her detailed examination of careers and strategies perfectly complements her subtle analysis of the schemas and visions these women have for their lives. Blair-Loy has given us not only a splendid view into a little known world, but also a new way of understanding the dynamic interplay of work and family. Looking beyond the static conflict we have studied so much, she shows how creative women put traditional schemas of family and work into a mutual transformation to build for themselves a new and more livable world.--Andrew Abbott, author of Time Matters 001478228 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001478228 546__ $$aIn English. 001478228 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. 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