Product Description: Fifteen years after its first publication, The Second Shift remains just as important and relevant today as it did then. As the majority of women entered the workforce, sociologist and Berkeley professor Arlie Hochschild was one of the first to talk about what really happens in dual-career households...read more

Product Description: An updated edition of a standard in its field that remains relevant more than twenty years after its original publication. More than twenty years ago, sociologist and University of California, Berkeley, professor Arlie Hochschild set off a tidal wave of conversation and controversy with his bestselling book, The Second Shift In it, she examined what really happens in dual-career households...read more

Product Description: In the last half-century, radical changes have rippled through the workplace and the home from Boston to Mumbai. In the face of rapid globalization, these changes affect us all, and we can no longer confine ourselves to addressing working and social conditions within our own borders without simultaneously addressing them on a global scale...read more

Describes the economic and social impact of the two-income family, explaining why sending mothers to work has made families more vulnerable economically, pointing to the intense bidding war for housing and schooling in America's suburbs, and presenting an innovative series of solutions on how to get the middle class back on financial track. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

Describes the economic and social impact of the two income family, explaining why sending mothers to work has made families more vulnerable economically, pointing to the intense bidding war for housing and schooling in America's suburbs, and presenting an innovative series of solutions on how to get the middle class back on financial track. 50,000 first printing.

Product Description: The first international comparative study of career changes among couples in modern society, this important book spans the globe, addressing career issues in Germany, the Netherlands, the Flemish part of Belgium, Italy, Spain, Greta Britain, the United States, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, and China...read more

An look at how children feel about working parents asks the children themselves about their feelings, and includes valuable data, such as the difference in parenting styles between mothers and fathers. Reprint.

Argues that two incomes are necessary for most modern families, and describes ways in which spouses can share duties and stop perpetuating the inequalities of the workplace (view table of contents)

In her first collection of avidly read columns, the author of the 'Work and Family' essays in The Wall Street Journal offers advice on such thorny subjects as balancing home and work, child care, and difficult bosses. Reprint.

Product Description: Confronting the abundant evidence that children suffer when their mothers leave them for the workplace, Mr. Robertson asks why it has nevertheless become the norm for mothers to work. The rise of feminism seems the obvious answer, but until the 1960s, the women's movement zealously fought against mothers' being forced to abandon their homes for wages...read more

Product Description: Comparing progress in the United Kingdom, United States, Scandinavia and Australia, this book looks at how organizations are changing to help individuals combine work and family roles. An interdisciplinary and international team of contributors: explore the problems of working parents and policies adopted to help them; examine workplace programmes relevant to work-family and gender issues in the four societies; and present case studies of organizations undergoing change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An look at how children feel about working parents asks the children themselves about their feelings, and includes valuable data, such as the difference in parenting styles between mothers and fathers. 25,000 first printing. Tour. (view table of contents)

Product Description: There is perhaps no greater controversy resulting from womens' increasing autonomy than the debate over the effects of a mother's employment on family life and children's well-being. This important volume starts with a thorough review of previous research on this topic and then reports the results of a study designed to answer the key questions that emerge...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Based on research about after-school experiences and dilemmas conducted over a four-year period with employed parents and their children, this book draws on the stories these parents and children told--often using their actual words--to emphasize the wide variety of children's after-school arrangements, children's movement over time in and out of different arrangements, and the importance to children of multiple facets of their after-school arrangements, not simply the presence or absence of an adult caretaker. The book also emphasizes that children are not randomly assigned to after-school arrangements. Rather, parents and children struggle to reach optimal solutions to what are often difficult child care dilemmas. To understand these dilemmas, and the diverse strategies that families adopt, one must attend to the individual situations of children as family members understand them. This book was written to contribute to the development of new family and work policies and practices by illuminating the difficulties families face and their consequences for children. Written for psychologists, sociologists, and other social scientists who study families, maternal employment, child care, or child development, it will also be useful for parents, educators, community leaders, and public policymakers concerned about the well being of children whose parents are employed.

Product Description: A timely look at the problem of unsupervised children and the risks and dangers that can occur is offered in the Second Edition. Thoroughly updated with new research, the authors put the latchkey phenomenon in perspective and attempt to dispel common misconceptions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Readable and challenging, this four-year study of three hundred middle-class and working-class couples debunks the myth of the overwrought working mother with her insensitive husband and neglected children. Drawing on extensive cross-disciplinary research, Rosalind Barnett and Caryl Rivers argue that "collaborative couples," busy as they are, thrive in their diverse roles, and inspire competence and confidence in their children...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Presents a look at the psychological and sociological pressures that force women to be the primary parent, making it impossible to be successful at work

An accomplished journalist and editor at Working Mother magazine dispels the convention that women who stay at home are better mothers, drawing on decades of research to reassure women they can benefit their children by working. Reprint. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Here, in what one of the contributors felicitously calls 'a mentoring book,' sixteen professional women write as generational role models about the hard choices and real problems that surface throughout the life cycle. Because 'the economics of choice are not just monetary, but spiritual and psychological as well,' professionals at all stages of life will welcome this support from the thinking women's trenches as they contemplate and actualize career and relationship decisions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The author looks at the psychological and sociological pressures that force women to be the primary parent, making it impossible to be successful at work, and shows how they can leave old ideas of motherhood behind through practical strategies. (view table of contents)

The author recounts her career counseling women college graduates for professional careers, and looks at the obstacles women have faced in pursuing a career (view table of contents)

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Product Description: The essays comprising this study examine the responses in ten different countries to the effects of maternal employment on individual family members, the family system, and public policy. Countries evaluated include Britain, Germany, India, Israel, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Ta...read more