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Bennetts, Leslie, 1949-
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Women -- Employment.
Sex role -- Economic aspects.
Feminism.
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The feminine mistake...
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The feminine mistake : are we giving up too much? / Leslie Bennetts.
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Bennetts, Leslie, 1949-
New York : Voice/Hyperion, c2007.
Subjects
Women -- Employment.
Sex role -- Economic aspects.
Feminism.
ISBN:
9781401303068
1401303064
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xxix, 350 p. ; 25 cm.
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1st ed.
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Women are often told that it's too difficult to balance work and family, so if they don't really "have to" work, it's better for their families if they stay home. Not only is this untrue, journalist Bennetts says, but the arguments in favor of stay-at-home motherhood fail to consider the surprising benefits of work and the unexpected toll of giving it up. Combining work and family really is the best choice for most women, and it's eminently doable. Earning money and being successful make women feel great, and when women sacrifice their financial autonomy by quitting their jobs, they become vulnerable to divorce as well as the potential illness, death, or unemployment of their breadwinner husbands. But women who stop working sacrifice far more than financial security--Bennetts' research documents the steep toll when women forfeit the intellectual, emotional, psychological, and even medical benefits of self-sufficiency.--From publisher description.
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