Like mother, like daughter? : how career women influence their daughters' ambition / Jill Armstrong.
| Author/creator | Armstrong, Jill author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Bristol : Policy Press, 2017. |
| Description | 1 online resource (224 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER? -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- 1. Mothers, daughters and careers -- Chapter themes -- Mothers as career mentors and role models? -- Generations -- Generations of gender progress at work -- Underrepresentation of women in senior roles -- Introducing successful career women and their daughters -- Outline of the rest of the book -- 2. Well-mothered daughters? -- Chapter themes -- The world in which the mothers' generation worked -- Work-life conflict and maternal guilt -- Gender identity, motherhood and work |
| Contents | Identities as mothers and workers; Attitudes to managing motherhood and work -- Was there talk about the effect of working? -- Mothers on the effect of working on their daughters -- How mothers mitigated the effect of working -- Daughters' stories on the effect of working -- Conclusions -- 3. A backlash against the way their mothers worked? -- Chapter themes -- Women should work, but not too much -- Intergenerational transmission and working hours -- Working hours and stress in professional jobs -- Are mothers' longer working hours detrimental to children? |
| Contents | Daughters who disliked their mothers working hours; their explanation; Daughters emulating their mothers' working hours -- Conclusions -- 4. Career choice: like mother, like daughter -- Chapter themes -- Standing on their mothers' shoulders -- Educational attainment -- Role modelling the expectation of a career -- My mother was my main influence: how daughters characterise their mothers' influence -- How mothers characterised their influence -- Other influences -- Conclusions -- 5. Quiet ambition -- Chapter themes -- Do women aim for the top? |
| Contents | The confidence gap becomes an ambition gap; Workplace culture -- Women's view of success -- Work talk -- How mothers talked about ambition and success -- How daughters talk about ambition and success -- Explaining quiet ambition -- Clear ambition -- The father factor -- Conclusions -- 6. Daughters'; aspirations for working motherhood -- Chapter themes -- Gender identity and the anticipation of motherhood -- The notion of choice about working motherhood -- Contemporary cultural scripts of motherhood |
| Contents | Complexity of drivers of decisions about working hoursChoosing a career with motherhood in mind -- The best of both worlds -- Contemporary motherhood culture -- Conclusions -- 7. Working motherhood across generations -- Chapter themes -- Historical, biographical and generational time -- Maternal time -- Work and time -- Daughters before children: the mothers' influence over their daughter's work/family aspirations -- Daughter mothers: the grandmothers' influence over their work/family choices -- Gains and losses of contemporary motherhood |
| Abstract | Women are encouraged to believe that they can occupy top jobs in society by the example of other women thriving in their careers. This book shows that having a mother as a role model does not predict daughters progressing in their own careers. It offers a timely and original perspective on the debate about gender equality in leadership positions. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Armstrong, Jill. Like mother, like daughter?. Bristol : Policy Press, 2017 9781447334088 1447334086 |
| ISBN | 9781447334095 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1447334094 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (mobi) |
| Stock number | 22573/ctt22r8r8t JSTOR |