Professional Progress Why Women Still Don't Have Wives [Hardcover]

This book questions women's slow progress towards equality. Neither male conspiracies nor women's psychology is at fault, but social structures which fail to accommodate people who both need to earn a living and who are obliged to care for their families underlie persistent inequalities. Many women do succeed in combining motherhood with career success, but they do so by escaping set patterns both at work and in the home. This book charts the odds against them and their methods of triumph.Introduction: Why Women Don't Have Wives - What do Women Want? - Why do Women Mother? - What do the Children Need? - Having it all: New Options, New Myths - The Wages Learners: Working as Necessity - Why Women Fail - Depression: a Female Ailment? - Dressed for Success - Looking Ahead - Endnotes - References - Index