Pamela Stone’s Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home is an in-depth look into women with advanced degrees and high-paying jobs that choose to leave their careers and become full-time moms. These women have become a widely recognized cultural type named “the new traditionalists.” Stone’s research looks into the causes behind this movement, and beyond the women that choose to leave work for their families’ sake to those that found the workplace to be hostile towards mothers.
Stone,Pamela. Opting Out?Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home.(Berkeley:The Regents of the University of California,2007.)
Topic: Should the Obama administration work to eliminate pay inequality for women?
Category: Academic/ Book
Title: Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home
Publication Information: The work was published by the University of California Press in Berkeley,Ca in 2007. The press’s home page claims that they are one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, advancing scholarship in humanities, social and natural sciences. Its work is supported by the university and by contributions. Ms. Stone was a fellow at Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, at the Public Policy Center for the duration of her research. She is also a wife and mother.
Support: Radcliffe Institute,Harvard University,National Science Foundation, sample of 54 women who fit the following criteria:well-educated,high-status professional career,married with children, had left their career to be home, financial security from husband’s earnings.
Source Analysis: Ms. Stone was funded by grants for the furthering of the science of humanities. This is a scholarly,regulated work, using qualitative methods to develop insights about the dynamics of the phenomenon under study.
Usefulness: This study helps further my topic because it details well-credentialed women who left their careers during prime work years, which is when most people are likely to experience career growth and promotions. This period of time coincides with prime childbearing years. This phenomonon might help in explaining that the reason statistitics state that women are making less than men overall might be somewhat skewed if they do not take into account the amount of women that sacrifice higher earnings for family.
Works Cited:http://www.ucpress.edu/press/index.php
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