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Author : Lisa A. Mainiero
Release : 2006-12-15
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 861/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Opt Out Revolt by : Lisa A. Mainiero
Download or read book The Opt Out Revolt written by Lisa A. Mainiero. This book was released on 2006-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to be a New Careerist--blazing trails and redesigning the corporate landscape
Author : Ingrid Biese
Release : 2017-01-20
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 730/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Opting Out and In by : Ingrid Biese
Download or read book Opting Out and In written by Ingrid Biese. This book was released on 2017-01-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opting Out and In: On women’s careers and new lifestyles introduces a new perspective and definition of opting out that better reflects contemporary issues and lifestyles. The book offers a timely and comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of women leaving high-powered careers, adding to current debates on opting out. It investigates the themes of globalization, individualization and the age of high modernity and addresses issues of how gender, in the context of what it means to be a mother and career woman in a masculinist society, affects decisions to opt out. In contrast to previous debates, the definition of opting out is broadened to include leaving prevalent masculinist notions of career to adopt alternative ways of working. To better understand the identity issues and inner workings of the women who opt out, opting out is critically examined through three lenses: agency and autonomy; gender, femininity and the maternal; and, finally, concepts of reinvention. These three areas of inquiry all raise and problematize relevant issues that are present in women’s lives, and that have a deep and defining effect on concepts of the self. The book includes the narratives of six women, interwoven with in-depth social theory and relevant debates. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Opting Out and In will strongly appeal to researchers and practitioners alike, working in areas such as social theory, globalization, feminist studies and identity studies.
Author : Pamela Stone
Release : 2021-02-23
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 828/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Opting Back In by : Pamela Stone
Download or read book Opting Back In written by Pamela Stone. This book was released on 2021-02-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interrupting a professional career is, for women who opt out, a conflicted decision of last resort. Most women envision returning to the labor force even as they leave it. But can they? Drawing on unique research that follows up women first interviewed for Opting Out?, this book profiles the efforts of a group of high-achieving women to go back to work. The good news is that these women, who are able to draw on considerable resources, are successful. The bad news is that they face cross pressures of class and gender that create what we call the paradox of privilege, which reinforces gender inequality in the family and workplace and results in re-entry strategies that either marginalize them as contingent workers or, for the sizeable fraction who radically reinvent themselves, segregate them in female-dominated fields. The book offers an in-depth look at the pressures high-potential women face as they struggle with the mixed signals of their class privilege - promise compromised by patriarchy - and offers up-close and personal insights in to how the twin pillars of gender inequality - the leadership and wage gaps - are created and maintained by the very women expected to transcend them. -- Provided by publisher.
Author : Morna M. McDermott
Release : 2014-12-01
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 344/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis An Activist Handbook for the Education Revolution by : Morna M. McDermott
Download or read book An Activist Handbook for the Education Revolution written by Morna M. McDermott. This book was released on 2014-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by: Rosemarie Jensen, Shaun Johnson, Morna McDermott, Laurie Murphy, Peggy Robertson, Ruth Rodriguez, Tim Slekar, Ceresta Smith, United Opt Out National Forward by Ricardo Rosa, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth This book is intended for educators, parents and community activists interested in reclaiming our public schools and reclaiming the public narrative around education policy. The book infuses research about the recent history of education policy reform, the strategies United Opt Out uses for fighting back against these policies, and proposes solutions that work to create sustainable, equitable, anti-racist, democratic and meaningful public education. This book is for anyone interested in an “insider’s look” behind the scene of forming an organization, or leading a resistance. Simultaneously the book provides scholarly-based research about the broader issues, policies and data around education reform, and the opt out movement. Education policy has been heating up ever since NCLB but especially since the roll out of Race to The Top and the Common Core State Standards. Nationally publicized debates and discord over these policies are garnering public attention of teachers, parents, and whole communities. We hope this book will add to the library of other recent books such as Mercedes Schneider’s A Chronicle of Echoes (2014), Diane Ravitch’s Reign of Error (2013) and Bowers & Thomas (eds) Detesting and Degrading Schools (2012), that have exposed the complex corporate interest in shaping education policies and the destructive influence such policies will have on our children and on our democracy. This book uses first person narratives infused with research and scholarship, to create personalized accounts into the life of education activism. Each chapter includes an Activists Handbook section to provide support for our activist/readers in their own efforts. We hope that our experiences will inspire others to take this charge upon themselves as well.
Author : Lauren Brooke Villarroel
Release : 2008
Genre : Stay-at-home mothers
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis The Opt-out Revolution by : Lauren Brooke Villarroel
Download or read book The Opt-out Revolution written by Lauren Brooke Villarroel. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
