TY - BOOK ID - 57008914 TI - Heading Home: Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality PY - 2019 SN - 9780231184724 9780231545631 0231545630 0231184727 PB - Columbia University Press DB - UniCat KW - United Kingdom KW - Work and family. KW - Working mothers. KW - Stay-at-home mothers. KW - Stay-at-home moms KW - Mothers KW - Employed mothers KW - Mothers, Employed KW - Mothers, Working KW - Families and work KW - Family and work KW - Families KW - Dual-career families KW - Work-life balance KW - Work and family KW - Working mothers KW - Stay-at-home mothers KW - Women in the professions KW - Women executives KW - Sex discrimination in employment KW - E-books KW - Employment (Economic theory) KW - Sex role in the work environment KW - Sexual division of labor KW - Women KW - Women as executives KW - Women in management KW - Women managers KW - Executives KW - Women middle managers KW - Professions KW - Employment KW - Personnel management KW - Women in the professions. KW - Women executives. KW - Sex discrimination in employment. KW - Motherhood KW - Labour KW - Working conditions KW - Attitudes KW - Corporate culture KW - Book KW - Gender equality KW - Experiences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:57008914 AB - Women in today's advanced capitalist societies are encouraged to "lean in." The media and government champion women's empowerment. In a cultural climate where women can seemingly have it all, why do so many successful professional women-lawyers, financial managers, teachers, engineers, and others-give up their careers after having children and become stay-at-home mothers? How do they feel about their decision and what do their stories tell us about contemporary society?Heading Home reveals the stark gap between the promise of gender equality and women's experience of continued injustice. Shani Orgad draws on in-depth, personal, and profoundly ambivalent interviews with highly educated London women who left paid employment to take care of their children while their husbands continued to work in high-powered jobs. Despite identifying the structural forces that maintain gender inequality, these women still struggle to articulate their decisions outside the narrow cultural ideals that devalue motherhood and individualize success and failure. Orgad juxtaposes these stories with media and policy depictions of women, work, and family, detailing how-even as their experiences fly in the face of fantasies of work-life balance and marriage as an egalitarian partnership-these women continue to interpret and judge themselves according to the ideals that are failing them. Rather than calling for women to transform their feelings and behavior, Heading Home argues that we must unmute and amplify women's desire, disappointment, and rage, and demand social infrastructure that will bring about long-overdue equality both at work and at home. ER -