The 2008 Women@Work Breakfast features guest speaker Pamela Stone, Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Stone’s new book, Opting Out? why women really quit careers and head home, charts the institutional obstacles and cultural pressures that leave women facing impossible options. She gets beneath the hype and offers the real reasons that 54 well-educated and high-achieving women left their careers after having children. Stone concludes by offering concrete ideas for redesigning workplaces to make it easier for women—and men—to attain their goal of living rewarding lives that combine both families and careers.
Praise for Opting Out:
"Brilliantly written and argued, this book reveals what's really going on in women's minds and corporate America today and what we can do to make equal opportunity at home and on the job reality rather the rhetoric." -Heidi Hartmann, President, Institute for Women's Policy Research.
"This groundbreaking study is required reading for anyone who cares about the fate of families, work, and gender equality in contemporary America." -Kathleen Gerson, author of Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhood
"Thank you, Pamela Stone, for producing new knowledge that both individuals and business policy makers will find essential in creating the conditions that will enable business professionals to meet this profound social and economic challenge." -Stewart Friedman, Wharton Work/Life Integration Project, University of Pennsylvania.
During the Women@Work Breakfast, we will acknowledge the 2008 NC Family-Friendly Companies, nominated by our readers and selected in partnership with UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Following our event, Balancing Professionals will conduct a workshop at the Durham Marriott Convention Center, 201 Foster St, Durham. The workshop, ON-RAMPING: STRATEGIES FOR RE-ENTERING THE WORKFORCE, will be from 11 am-2:30 pm and will include lunch. For more information about the workshop, visit www.balancingprofessionals.com/On-Ramping-Agenda.php
Registration for both events is available here.
