![]() | Glass Ceilings and 100-Hour Couples: What the Opt-Out Phenomenon Can Teach Us about Work and Family Subjects: Work and family -- United States; Working mothers -- United States; Stay-at-home mothers -- United States; Women -- Employment -- United States; Dual-career families -- United States; Glass ceiling (Employment discrimination) -- United States; When significant numbers of college-educated American women began, in the early twenty-first century, to leave paid work to become stay-at-home mothers, an emotionally charged national debate erupted. Karine Moe and Dianna Shandy, a professional economist and an anthropologist, respectively, decided to step back from the sometimes overheated rhetoric around the so-called mommy wars. They wondered what really inspired women to opt out, and they wanted to gauge the phenomenon's genuine repercussions. Glass Ceilings and 100-Hour Couples is the fruit of their investigation-a rigorous, accessible, and sympathetic reckoning with this hot-button issue in contemporary life. Karine Moe (Author) KARINE MOE is a professor of economics at Macalester College. She is the editor of Women, Family, and Work: Writings on the Economics of Gender . Dianna Shandy (Author) DIANNA SHANDY is an associate professor of anthropology at Macalester College. She is the author of Nuer-American Passages: Globalizing Sudanese Migration . |
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