{"product_id":"competing-devotions-career-and-family-among-women-executives-9780674018167","title":"Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Women Executives","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe wrenching decision facing successful women choosing between demanding careers and intensive family lives has been the subject of many articles and books  most of which propose strategies for resolving the dilemma. Competing Devotions focuses on broader social and cultural forces that create womens identities and shape their understanding of what makes life worth living.  Mary Blair-Loy examines the career paths of women financial executives who have tried various approaches to balancing career and family. The professional level these women have attained requires a huge commitment of time  energy  and emotion that seems natural to employers and clients  who assume that a career deserves single-minded allegiance. Meanwhile  these women must confront the cultural model of family that defines marriage and motherhood as a womans primary vocation. This ideal promises women creativity  intimacy  and financial stability in caring for a family. It defines children as fragile and assumes that men lack the selflessness and patience that childrens primary caregivers need. This ideal is taken for granted in much of contemporary society.  The power of these assumptions is enormous but not absolute. Competing Devotions identifies women executives who try to reshape these ideas. These mavericks  who face great resistance but are aided by new ideological and material resources that come with historical change  may eventually redefine both the nuclear family and the capitalist firm in ways that reduce work-family conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646814445621,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674018168","price":31.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674018167.jpg?v=1781678778","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/competing-devotions-career-and-family-among-women-executives-9780674018167","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}