Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Women Executives

Competing Devotions is a groundbreaking book that sheds light on the complex dilemma faced by successful women who must choose between their demanding careers and intensive family lives.

Mary Blair-Loy examines the career paths of women financial executives, revealing the cultural forces that shape their understanding of what makes life worth living.

Through in-depth analysis, she identifies mavericks who are reshaping these ideas and redefining both the nuclear family and the capitalist firm to reduce work-family conflict.

This thought-provoking book will inspire readers to challenge the cultural model of family that defines marriage and motherhood as a woman's primary vocation, and instead embrace new ideological and material resources that come with historical change.

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