Competing Devotions

Career and Family among Women Executives

Mary Blair-Loy

  • 2005 William J. Goode Book Award, Sponsored by the ASA Section on the Family

Introduction

1. The Devotion to Work Schema

2. The Devotion to Family Schema

3. Reinventing Schemas: Creating Part-Time Careers

4. Reinventing Schemas: Family Life among Full-Time Executive Women

5. Turning Points

6. Implications

Appendix: Methods and Data

Notes

References

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: Competing Devotions
  • A photo of the author

Author photo: Rick Singer

Mary Blair-Loy is Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego.