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Fast-Track Women and the "Choice" to Stay Home

Pamela Stone

Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Meg Lovejoy

Increasing attention has been given to high-achieving women who appear to be leaving their careers in favor of staying home full-time to raise children. Some commentators interpret this trend as reflecting these women’s embrace of a "new traditionalism," a rejection of feminist goals in favor of more traditional gender roles. Based on intensive interviews with forty-three women, the authors find that participants’ decisions to interrupt careers are highly conflicted and not grounded in a return to traditional roles. Although family concerns figure prominently, they are not the major reason behind most women’s decisions. Work-based factors play a primary role, with characteristics of husbands playing an important secondary role. The authors conclude that by virtue of their occupational status and class membership, professional women are caught in a double bind between the competing models of the ideal worker and ideal parent. The authors discuss the policy implications for the organization of work-family life.

Key Words: professional women • work and family • career interruption • stay-at-home mothers

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 596, No. 1, 62-83 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0002716204268552
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