how working women are creating a new society
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Wolf, Alison
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- WER 51 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- betaalde arbeid, loopbanen, deeltijdarbeid, gezinnen, beroepssegregatie, huishoudelijke en zorgberoepen, alleenstaanden, ouderschap, seksualiteit, statistiek
- Description
- Nowadays women are successful careerists equal to men. In Norway, women legally must constitute a third of all boards: in America, women have gone from 3% of practising lawyers in 1970 to 40% today, and over half of all law students. These changes are revolutionary, but not universal: the 'sisterhood' of working women is deeply divided. Making enormous strides in the workplace are young, educated, full-time professionals who have put children on hold. But for a second group of women this is unattainable: instead, they work part-time, earn less, are concentrated in heavily feminised occupations like cleaning and gain income and self-worth from having children young. As these two groups move ever further apart, shared gender no longer automatically creates interests in common with other women.
