Like Mother, Like Daughter?

How Career Women Influence their Daughters' Ambition

AvJill Armstrong

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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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. It finds that mothers with careers, whilst highly influential in their daughters’ choice of career path, rarely mentor their daughters as they progress. This is partly explained by ‘quiet ambition’ – the tendency of women to be modest about their achievements. Bigger issues are the twin pressures from contemporary motherhood and workplace culture that ironically lead career women’s daughters to believe that being a ‘good mother’ means working part-time. This stalls career progress.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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-03-06
Mått:156 x 234 x 13 mm
Vikt:354 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Bristol University Press
ISBN:9781447334101

Utforska kategorier

Ledarskap och motivation inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Jill Armstrong is a Research Associate at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. Her research specialism is gender equality at work. She is now leading the ‘Collaborating with Men’ research project that aims to change workplace culture to be more inclusive for women. Previously she led two successful commercial market research companies, all of which adds to her insight for this book. She has spoken about her mothers and daughters research on BBC Radio Four’s Bringing Up Britain.

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"Jill Armstrong's study about pairs of mothers and daughters shines light on the intimate and private relations between such women. It illustrates the quiet ambitions of both generations, in an extremely approachable way." Miriam David, University College London

Innehållsförteckning

Mothers, daughters and careersWell-mothered daughters?A backlash against the way their mothers worked?Career choice: like mother, like daughterQuiet ambitionDaughters’ aspirations for working motherhoodWorking motherhood across generationsPartners in parentingMaking working motherhood work