For the family? : how class and gender shape women's work / Sarah Damaske.
Damaske, Sarah.
2011
HD6095 .D36 2011 (Mapit)
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For the family? : how class and gender shape women's work / Sarah Damaske.
Author
Damaske, Sarah.
ISBN
9780199791507 (alk. paper)
0199791503 (alk. paper)
9780199791491 (pbk. : alk. paper)
019979149X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 228 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
HD6095 .D36 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.40973
Summary
In the contentious debate about women and work, conventional wisdom holds that middle-class women can decide if they work, while working-class women need to work. Yet, even after the recent economic crisis, middle-class women are more likely to work than working-class women. Damaske deflates the myth that financial needs dictate if women work, revealing that financial resources make it easier for women to remain at work and not easier to leave it.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-213) and index.
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