Competing devotions : career and family among women executives /
Blair-Loy, Mary.
Competing devotions : career and family among women executives / Mary Blair-Loy. - 269 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-259) and index.
The Devotion to Work Schema -- The Devotion to Family Schema -- Reinventing Schemas: Creating Part-Time Careers -- Reinventing Schemas: Family Life among Full-Time Executive Women -- Turning Points -- Implications -- Methods and Data. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. App.
"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 women executives, 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."--BOOK JACKET.
0674010892 9780674010895
2002192238
Work and family--United States
Women executives--United States
Dual-career families--United States
HD4904.25 / .B57 2003
305.43658
Competing devotions : career and family among women executives / Mary Blair-Loy. - 269 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-259) and index.
The Devotion to Work Schema -- The Devotion to Family Schema -- Reinventing Schemas: Creating Part-Time Careers -- Reinventing Schemas: Family Life among Full-Time Executive Women -- Turning Points -- Implications -- Methods and Data. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. App.
"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 women executives, 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."--BOOK JACKET.
0674010892 9780674010895
2002192238
Work and family--United States
Women executives--United States
Dual-career families--United States
HD4904.25 / .B57 2003
305.43658