Full Description
Women are encouraged to believe that they can occupy top jobs in society by the example of other women thriving in their careers. Who better to be a role model for career success than your mother? Paradoxically, this book shows that having a mother as a role model, even for graduates of top universities, does not predict daughters progressing in their own careers.
Based on a large, cross-generational qualitative sample, this book offers a timely and original perspective on the debate about gender equality in leadership positions.
Contents
Mothers, daughters and careers
Well-mothered daughters?
A backlash against the way their mothers worked?
Career choice: like mother, like daughter
Quiet ambition
Daughters' aspirations for working motherhood
Working motherhood across generations
Partners in parenting
Making working motherhood work
