The Maternal Wall

Author : Monica Biernat
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781405130486
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maternal Wall written by Monica Biernat and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2004-12-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past four or five decades, the feminist revolution has brought a lot of changes. There is a lot of evidence that the glass ceiling is being shattered. For one particular group, however, gender equity remains elusive. That group is working mothers. The problem of the "glass ceiling" has now turned into a related, from different problem: "the maternal wall." In the first Journal of Social Issues (JSI) to deal specifically with the topic of working mothers, scholars from several disciplines discuss a variety of aspects of the problem of the maternal wall.

Author : Joan C. Williams
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479835455
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Works for Women at Work written by Joan C. Williams and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-01-17 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up-beat, pragmatic, and chock full of advice, What Works for Women at Work is an indispensable guide for working women. An essential resource for any working woman, What Works for Women at Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering office politics as a woman. Authored by Joan C. Williams, one of the nation’s most-cited experts on women and work, and her daughter, writer Rachel Dempsey, this unique book offers a multi-generational perspective into the realities of today’s workplace. Often women receive messages that they have only themselves to blame for failing to get ahead—Negotiate more! Stop being such a wimp! Stop being such a witch! What Works for Women at Work tells women it’s not their fault. The simple fact is that office politics often benefits men over women. Based on interviews with 127 successful working women, over half of them women of color, What Works for Women at Work presents a toolkit for getting ahead in today’s workplace. Distilling over 35 years of research, Williams and Dempsey offer four crisp patterns that affect working women: Prove-It-Again!, the Tightrope, the Maternal Wall, and the Tug of War. Each represents different challenges and requires different strategies—which is why women need to be savvier than men to survive and thrive in high-powered careers. Williams and Dempsey’s analysis of working women is nuanced and in-depth, going far beyond the traditional cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all approaches of most career guides for women. Throughout the book, they weave real-life anecdotes from the women they interviewed, along with quick kernels of advice like a “New Girl Action Plan,” ways to “Take Care of Yourself”, and even “Comeback Lines” for dealing with sexual harassment and other difficult situations.

Author : Monica Biernat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maternal Wall written by Monica Biernat and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sharon Meers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1936740672
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting to 50/50 written by Sharon Meers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober are professionals, wives, and mothers. They understand the challenges and rewards of two-career households. They also know that families thrive not in spite of working mothers but because of them. You can have a great career, a great marriage, and be a great mother. The key is tapping into your best resource and most powerful ally—the man you married. After interviewing hundreds of parents and employers, surveying more than a thousand working mothers, and combing through the latest government and social science research, the authors have discovered that kids, husbands, and wives all reap huge benefits when couples commit to share equally as breadwinners and caregivers. Mothers work without guilt, fathers bond with their kids, and children blossom with the attention of two involved parents. The starting point? An attitude shift that puts you on the road to 50/50—plus the positive step-by-step advice in this book. From “baby boot camp” for new dads to exactly what to say when negotiating a leave with the boss, this savvy book offers fresh ideas to today’s families offering encouragement, hope, and confidence to any woman who has ever questioned her choices regarding work and family.

Author : Lyz Lenz
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1541762827
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belabored written by Lyz Lenz and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Belabored, Lyz Lenz will "make you cry in one paragraph and snort-laugh in the next" (Chloe Angyal, contributing editor at MarieClaire.com). Written with a blend of wit, snark, and raw intimacy, Belabored is an impassioned and irreverent defense of the autonomy, rights, and dignity of pregnant people. Lenz shows how religious, historical, and cultural myths about pregnancy have warped the way we treat pregnant people: when our representatives enact laws criminalizing abortion and miscarriage, when doctors prioritize the health of the fetus over the life of the pregnant patient in front of them, when baristas refuse to serve visibly pregnant women caffeine. She also reflects on her own experiences of carrying her two children and seeing how the sacrifices demanded during pregnancy carry over seamlessly into the cult of motherhood, where women are expected to play the narrowly defined roles of "wife" and "mother" rather than be themselves. Belabored is an urgent call for us to trust women and let them choose what happens to their own bodies, from a writer who "is on a roll" (Bitch Magazine).

Author : Judy Batalion
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698183681
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Walls written by Judy Batalion and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of mothers and daughters, hoarding, and healing. Judy Batalion grew up in a house filled with endless piles of junk and layers of crumbs and dust; suffocated by tuna fish cans, old papers and magazines, swivel chairs, tea bags, clocks, cameras, printers, VHS tapes, ballpoint pens…obsessively gathered and stored by her hoarder mother. The first chance she had, she escaped the clutter to create a new identity—one made of order, regimen, and clean white walls. Until, one day, she found herself enmeshed in life’s biggest chaos: motherhood. Confronted with the daunting task of raising a daughter after her own dysfunctional childhood, Judy reflected on not only her own upbringing but the lives of her mother and grandmother, Jewish Polish immigrants who had escaped the Holocaust. What she discovered astonished her. The women in her family, despite their differences, were even more closely connected than she ever knew—from her grandmother Zelda to her daughter of the same name. And, despite the hardships of her own mother-daughter relationship, it was that bond that was slowly healing her old wounds. Told with heartbreaking honesty and humor, this is Judy’s poignant account of her trials negotiating the messiness of motherhood and the indelible marks that mothers and daughters make on each other’s lives.

Author : Joan C. Williams
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1647822734
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bias Interrupted written by Joan C. Williams and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cutting-edge, relentless, objective approach to inclusion. Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts with remarkably few results. Too often diversity efforts rest on the assumption that all that's needed is an earnest conversation about "privilege." That's not enough. To truly make progress we need to stop celebrating the problem and instead take effective steps to solve it. In Bias Interrupted, Joan C. Williams shows how it's done, and, reassuringly, how easy it is to get started. One of today's preeminent voices on inclusive workplaces, Williams explains how leaders can use standard business tools—data, metrics, and persistence—to interrupt the bias that is continually transmitted through formal systems like performance appraisals, as well as the informal systems that control access to career-enhancing opportunities. The book presents fresh evidence, based on Williams's exhaustive research and work with companies, that interrupting bias helps every group—including white men. Comprehensive, though compact and straightforward, Bias Interrupted delivers real, practical value in an efficient and accessible manner to an audience that has never needed it more. It's possible to interrupt bias. Here's where you start.

Author : Emma Milne
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839096225
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Criminal Justice Responses to Maternal Filicide written by Emma Milne and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milne provides a comprehensive analysis of conviction outcomes through court transcripts of 14 criminal cases in England and Wales during 2010 to 2019. Drawing on feminist theories of responsibilisation and 'gendered harm', she critically reflects on the gendered nature of criminal justice's responses to suspected infanticide.

Author : Deborah J. Swiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and the Work/Family Dilemma written by Deborah J. Swiss and published by . This book was released on 1993-04-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superwoman is a myth. And nobody, even the most successful woman, really has it all. These are just two of the conclusions from this timely book based on a survey of 900 women over a ten year period. The results provide a new definition of success which includes the homefront as well as the work-front.

Author : Joeli Brearley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781471192678
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pregnant Then Screwed written by Joeli Brearley and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern-day motherhood is hard and discrimination against women who are, have been or could be pregnant is on the rise. Pregnant Then Screwed tells us what the barriers to motherhood and work are, and how we can work together to overcome them.