The Road Winds Uphill All the Way: Gender, Work, and Family in the United States and Japan
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"This wonderfully detailed study of the renegotiation of traditional gender roles provides a cross-cultural lesson in how educated women are moving mountains as well as climbing them." -- Nancy Folbre, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst In a time of societal transition, women and men around the globe struggle to combine careers and family in new ways. However, conventional work and family structures and power imbalances between women and men often reinforce traditional gender stereotypes in both home and office. In an effort to understand the roots of gender inequality, Myra Strober and Agnes Miling Kaneko Chan conducted an extensive survey of the 1981 graduates of Stanford and Tokyo Universities--parallel populations in historically very different cultures. First-hand comments from the graduates are combined with quantitative analyses for a lively examination of the career and family choices of these highly educated women and men. Contrasting the...Похожие книги
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