Can women have rewarding careers and still be good mothers? The editor of "Working Mother" magazine answers with a resounding "yes" in the book "The Boston Globe" called "a fresh breeze in a smog of myth and misinformation."
Can women have rewarding careers and still be good mothers? The editor of "Working Mother" magazine answers with a resounding "yes" in the book "The Boston Globe" called "a fresh breeze in a smog of myth and misinformation."
Betty Holcomb, a distinguished journalist, has appeared on CNN and CNBC-TV and has been interviewed by newspapers including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times. She has written for Working Mother, Parenting, Parents, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and Glamour.
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Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1 Supermom's Daughters: The Birth of a New Pessimism 2 Homeward Bound? The Feminine Mystique Circa the 1990s 3 Marketing the Mystique: For Profit and Ideology 4 What About Your Kids? Stigmatizing Ambition 5 Mothers Not Welcome Here: How the Myths Fuel Discrimination 6 You Had the Baby, It's Your Problem! Justifying the Inflexible Workplace 7 Will Only Mommy Do? The Power of Scientific Myths 8 In the Care of Strangers: Day Care's Enduring Stigma 9 The New Math: Does It Pay to Work? The Myth of "Choice" About Working 10 Women's Puny Paychecks: How They Got So Small 11 It Does Take a Village to Raise a Child: The Myth of Personal Responsibility 12 Whose Family Values? The Politics That Devalue Working Mothers 13 Yes, Families Are Changing -- For the Better 14 Not Guilty! From Angst to Anger Endnotes Index
Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1 Supermom's Daughters: The Birth of a New Pessimism 2 Homeward Bound? The Feminine Mystique Circa the 1990s 3 Marketing the Mystique: For Profit and Ideology 4 What About Your Kids? Stigmatizing Ambition 5 Mothers Not Welcome Here: How the Myths Fuel Discrimination 6 You Had the Baby, It's Your Problem! Justifying the Inflexible Workplace 7 Will Only Mommy Do? The Power of Scientific Myths 8 In the Care of Strangers: Day Care's Enduring Stigma 9 The New Math: Does It Pay to Work? The Myth of "Choice" About Working 10 Women's Puny Paychecks: How They Got So Small 11 It Does Take a Village to Raise a Child: The Myth of Personal Responsibility 12 Whose Family Values? The Politics That Devalue Working Mothers 13 Yes, Families Are Changing -- For the Better 14 Not Guilty! From Angst to Anger Endnotes Index
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