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  title info:
    title: Mothers on the fast track
    sub title: how a new generation can balance family and careers
  name:
    name part: Mason, Mary Ann.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Ekman, Eve Mason.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Case studies
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 149 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: In the past few decades the number of women entering graduate and professional schools has been going up and up, while the number of women reaching the top rung of the corporate and academic worlds has remained relatively stagnant. Why are so many women falling off the fast track? In this timely book, Mary Ann Mason traces the career paths of the first generation of ambitious women who started careers in academia, law, medicine, business, and the media in large numbers in the 1970s and '80s. Many women who had started families but continued working had ended up veering off the path to upper management at a point she calls "the second glass ceiling." Rather than sticking to their original career goals, they allowed themselves to slide into a second tier of management that offers fewer hours, less pay, lower prestige, and limited upward mobility. Men who did likewise--entered the career world with high aspirations and then started families while working--not only did not show the same trend, they reached even higher levels of professional success than men who had no families at all. Along with her daughter, an aspiring journalist, Mason has written a guide for young women who are facing the tough decision of when--and if--to start a family. It is also a guide for older women seeking a second chance to break through to the next level, as Mason herself did in academia. The book features anecdotes and strategies from the dozens of women they interviewed. Advice ranges from the personal (know when to say "no," the importance of time management) to the institutional, with suggestions for how the workplace itself can be changed to make it easier for ambitious working mothers to reach the top levels. The result is a roadmap of new choices for women facing the sobering question of how to balance a successful career with family
  table of contents: Introduction: Do babies matter? Mothers on the fast track -- The "mother problem": up, out, or sidelined? -- The student years : eighteen to thirty-two -- The make-or-break years: thirty to forty -- Mothers' choices: staying the course, opting out, or dropping down -- The second tier -- Beyond the glass ceiling: forty to sixty-five and beyond -- Second chances for mothers on the fast track.
  note: Mary Ann Mason, Eve Mason Ekman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-136) and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Working mothers
    geographic: United States
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Mothers
    topic: Employment
    geographic: United States
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Work and family
    geographic: United States
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Mères au travail
    geographic: États-Unis
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Mères
    topic: Travail
    geographic: États-Unis
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Travail et familles
    geographic: États-Unis
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
    topic: Parenting
    topic: Motherhood
  subject:
    topic: Mothers
    topic: Employment
  subject:
    topic: Work and family
  subject:
    topic: Working mothers
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: HQ759.48 .M347 2007eb
  classification: 306.874/3097309045
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      title: Mothers on the fast track
    name:
      name part: Mason, Mary Ann.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 080120
    record change date: 20260318172824.7
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng