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Women, Motherhood and Work: New book by Macalester professors seeks to understand the opt-out phenomenon.
Early this century, when significant numbers of college-educated American women began to leave paid work to become stay-at-home mothers, an emotionally charged national debate erupted. Macalester professors, economist Karine Moe, and anthropologist Dianna Shandy, decided to step back from the sometimes overheated rhetoric around the so-called mommy wars.
Drawing on hundreds of interviews from around the country, original survey research, and national labor force data, Moe and Shandy refocus the discussion of women who opt out from one where they are the object of scrutiny to one where their aspirations and struggles tell us about the far broader swath of American women who continue to juggle paid work and family.
UPCOMING: 8 a.m., November 14, Moe and Shandy on FOX 9 Morning News.
You can watch their appearance here.
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About the Authors
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Dianna Shandy is a sociocultural anthropologist whose work engages questions related to forced migration; humanitarian and human services interventions; rapid social change; gender; qualitative research methods; and applied social research.
Karine Moe is a labor economist who has research and teaching interests in economic growth, labor and demographic economics and economics of the family.
In the News
Pioneer Press
Pioneer Press reviews Glass Ceilings and 100 Hour Couples. Read the review»
MPR.org
MPR's Marianne Combs talks with Karine Moe and another author during her Midmorning program about work-life balance in tough economic times.
Inside Higher Ed
Professors Moe and Shandy's wrote an article in Inside Higher Ed about the subject of their book.
