Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers & Head Home

Dr. Pamela Stone, Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

  • Thursday, November 13th
  • 1:00-2:15pm
  • Cohen Lounge

Dr. Pamela Stone has completed an in-depth study of working mothers who have left their careers in high-level professional jobs to become full-time, stay-at-home mothers. Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home explores why and how women came to make this important decision, the factors influencing it, and its implications for the women themselves, their families, and their communities as well as for women's status.

Free and open to the public

Sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program

Article Created:
November 10 2008
Article Last Edited:
November 14 2008