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Wolf, Alison.
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Women -- Employment -- History.
Women employees.
Women executives.
Women in the professions.
Work-life balance.
Work and family.
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Wolf, Alison.
Women -- Employment -- History.
Women employees.
Women executives.
Women in the professions.
Work-life balance.
Work and family.
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The XX factor : how the rise of working women has created a far less equal world / Alison Wolf.
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Wolf, Alison.
Allen Lane, 2013.
Call #:
331
.4
W853x
Subjects
Women -- Employment -- History.
Women employees.
Women executives.
Women in the professions.
Work-life balance.
Work and family.
ISBN:
9780670064779 (hc.)
0670064777 (hc.)
Description:
xvi, 393 pages :P illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-372) and index.
Summary:
"For most of history, being female defined the limits of a woman's achievements. But now women can be successful careerists equal to men. Currently, more than seventy million educated women throughout the world work alongside men. Many delay marriage and children, and some forego them entirely. Yet professional women remain a minority. The "sisterhood" of working women is deeply divided. Young, educated, full-time professional women, who have put children on hold, are making enormous strides in the workplace. But for a second group of women, this is unattainable; instead, they work part-time, earn less, are concentrated in heavily feminized occupations such as cleaning, and gain income and self-worth from having children at a young age. The new female elite, the top 10 percent, lead lives completely different from all previous women in history or from other women today. As these two groups move ever further apart, shared gender no longer automatically means shared interests. A groundbreaking look at modern women, The XX Factor lifts the curtain on the social, cultural, and economic schisms behind the phenomenal rise of women in the workplace"--Provided by publisher.
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