October 14, 2004
MOMMIES AND
DADDIES ON THE FAST TRACK:
SUCCESS OF PARENTS IN DEMANDING PROFESSIONS
Edited by Jerry A. Jacobs and Janice
Fanning Madden, University of Pennsylvania
A Volume of The Annals of The American
Academy of Political and Social Science
Volume 596, November 2004
Now Available!
(See Table of Contents Below.)
In the past 30 years, women have made
dramatic forays into previously male-dominated professions that have been
termed "fast-track jobs"; examples include law, medicine, academe, corporate
management, engineering, and financial management.
These careers, which typically require long
hours and have little flexibility, often have significant impacts on the
families of the workers. The work-family issues for parents in these
fast-track jobs differ in many ways from those faced by parents employed in
lower paying, less demanding jobs.
Recently, scholars from a variety of
disciplines have been analyzing how organizational structures affect the
career success rates of women or men in fast track jobs who devote more time
to their families for a period and also the ability of successful women and
men in these jobs to have families. The Alice Paul Center for Research on
Women and Gender at the University of Pennsylvania hosted a conference
dealing with the new research on families and fast track workers.
This special volume of the ANNALS includes
the research papers from that conference. The papers include studies of the
professions of academe, law, finance, and medicine. Also included are a
study of the history of how college educated women have combined work and
family over the last hundred years, an analysis of the forces that have led
to inefficiently long hours for fast track workers, a study of fast track
women who have dropped out, and discussions of policies and gender-based
expectations that could change the capacity of workers to balance work and
family obligations.
Delving into topics that tap into several
disciplines, this compelling issue appeals to scholars, students, and
practitioners in the fields of gender studies, family studies, business, and
organizational studies and is a valuable resource for those striving to
better understand the tremendous challenges of balancing career and family
in fast track positions- both for individuals and organizations.
MOMMIES AND DADDIES ON THE
FAST TRACK:
SUCCESS OF PARENTS IN DEMANDING PROFESSIONS
Edited by Jerry A. Jacobs and Janice Fanning
Madden, University of Pennsylvania
A Volume of The Annals of The American
Academy of Political and Social Science
Volume 596, November 2004
Contents
Preface Janice Fanning Madden
Section One: Overviews
- The Long Road to the Fast Track,
Claudia Goldin
- Economic Models of the "Family-Friendly"
Workplace: Making the Case for Change, Amy Wax
- Fast-Track Women and the "Choice" to
Stay Home, Pamela Stone and Meg Lovejoy
Section Two: Within the Professions
- Marriage and Baby Blues: Re-defining
Gender Equity in the Academy, Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden
- Overworked Faculty: Job Stresses and
Family Demands, Jerry A. Jacobs and Sarah E. Winslow
- The Mommy Track and Law Firm
Partnership: Temporary Delay or Dead End? Mary C. Noonan and Mary E.
Corcoran
- Mothers in Finance: Surviving and
Thriving, Mary Blair-Loy and Amy S. Wharton
- The Evolution of Gender and Motherhood
in Contemporary Medicine, Ann Boulis
Section Three: Comments and Other Contexts
- "Mommies and Daddies on the Fast Track"
in Other Wealthy Nations, Gwen Moore
- Elite Careers and Family Commitment:
It's (Still) about Gender, Scott Coltrane
- Where We Are Now and Future
Possibilities, Joyce Jacobsen
- Challenging the Double Standard in
Parenting, Heidi Hartmann
- The Contemporary Myth of Choice: A
Review of Four Recent Books on Family and Work, Rosanna Hertz
To purchase a copy of this volume of The
Annals, please contact Sage Publications at 1-800-818-7243 or visit
www.sagepub.com. To download a quick
read synopsis of the volume or for more information about The American
Academy of Political and Social Science, please go to
www.aapss.org.
- Jerry A. Jacobs
- Editor, American Sociological Review
- Merriam Term Professor
- Department of Sociology
- University of Pennsylvania
-
jjacobs@sas.upenn.edu
- 215-898-1536
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