Equal Partners? (eBook)

How Dual-Professional Couples Make Career, Relationship, and Family Decisions

Jaclyn S Wong (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
208 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38459-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Many young professionals seek egalitarian partnerships in which both partners work for pay and share unpaid housework and childcare. Yet working couples' realities often deviate from this ideal, with women trading off employment for family care. Will contemporary young adults repeat this pattern, or will they come closer to achieving equality in work and family? Equal Partners? seeks to explore this question.  

Drawing on six years of interviews with the partners in twenty-one different-gender couples, Jaclyn S. Wong documents how supportive workplaces, partners' steadfast gender-egalitarian attitudes, and partners' jointly coordinated actions all need to come together for couples to experience gender equality in work and family. This book offers a compelling study of the dynamics of couples in ambitious partnerships who aspire to equality as they navigate the external pressures that come with life planning.

Inhalt

Contents

List of Tables 

1. Gender, Work, and Family in the Twenty-First Century 
2. Consistent Compromisers 
3. Autonomous Actors 
4. Tending Traditional Couples 
5. Comparing Couples 
6. Pathways Forward 
Epilogue 

Acknowledgments 
Methodological Appendix 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.4.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Schlagworte: Caregiving • Childcare • contemporary American society • cultural norms • Division of labor • Equality • family responsibilities • Gender Revolution • heterosexual relationships • household chores • Sociology • Time • traditional couples • two career households • work life balance
• ISBN-10: 0-520-38459-8 / 0520384598
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-38459-0 / 9780520384590