Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home

By Molly Rosner. 2010

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Subfields: Finance, Sociology and Political Science

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Cultural Schemas, Social Class, and the Flexibility Stigma (2013, background): “Drawing on intensive life-history interviews with 54 women who “opted out” of professional or managerial jobs after having children (Stone, 2007), these authors consider the way in which flexibility stigma influenced these women’s decisions to leave their jobs.”
The Gender Pay Gap Beyond Human Capital (2011, background): “In contrast, Stone (2007) argues that mostly professional women want to but cannot manage to raise children and function in demanding careers (see also Leonhardt 2010).”
Normative Discrimination and the Motherhood Penalty (2010, background): “As a consequence of normative discrimination, we also expect evaluators to offer successful mothers lower levels of organizational rewards (e.g., hiring and salary) compared to otherwise identical nonmothers.”
Being a Good Mom (2015, background): “The tenacity of the intensive mothering ideology has since been well documented (see BlairLoy, 2003; Blum, 1999; Bobel, 2002; Garey, 1999; Stone, 2007; Walzer, 1998).”
Gender Role Attitudes and Women's Labor Market Participation: Opting-Out, AIDS and the President Appeal of Housewifery (2015, background): “…It has been characterized as the “opting out” phenomena in the popular press (Belkin, 2003; Wallis, 2004; Story, 2005) and among sociologists (Cotter, Hermsen and Vanneman, 2007; Stone, 2007) who wonder whether we are witnessing “The End of the Gender Revolution” as an ideological movement.”
Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women's Leadership Development Programs (2011, background): “…Babcock & Lai, 2007); women who are not nice enough are dismissed as unlikeable, or worse (Heilman & Parks-Stamm, 2007); and women who ostensibly “opt out” may in fact have been pushed out by workplace bias, inflexibility, and lack of support (Williams, Manvell, & Bronstein, 2006; Stone, 2007).”
A maze of metaphors around glass ceilings (2012, background): “Stone (2007) carried out 7 interviews with 54 women who had left prestigious jobs to raise their children.”
Family Relationships and Well-Being (2017, background): “Mothers often report greater parental pressures than fathers, such as more obligation to be there for their children (Reczek, Thomeer, et al., 2014; Stone, 2007), and to actively work on family relationships (Erickson, 2005).”
Overwork and the Slow Convergence in the Gender Gap in Wages (2014, background): “…stalled convergence in the gender gap in wages is especially puzzling in light of the aIndiana University bCornell University Corresponding Author: Youngjoo Cha, Department of Sociology, Indiana University, 771 Ballantine Hall, 1020 E. Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405 E-mail: cha5@indiana.edu”