{"id":37,"date":"2005-11-29T07:54:59","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T07:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.246\/~wisecon1\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2005-11-29T07:54:59","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T07:54:59","slug":"the_real_glass_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"The Real Glass Ceiling is at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s worth reading Linda Hirschman&#8217;s article &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/web\/page.ww?section=root&amp;name=ViewWeb&amp;articleId=10659\">Homeward Bound<\/a>.&quot;&nbsp; She argues that the real glass ceiling isn&#8217;t in the executive suite, but the home.&nbsp; Hirschman surveyed high-powered brides and grooms from the New York Times wedding section and tracked their career choices over time.&nbsp; Almost all chose to stay home.&nbsp; She argues that these well-educated, high powered women would lead richer lives if couples made choices that enabled women to stay in the workplace full time to pursue careers and if society were better at supporting those choices by providing child care.&nbsp; Hirschman offers different provocative yet constructive take that what <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/opinion\/editorialsandoped\/oped\/columnists\/maureendowd\/index.html\">Maureen Dowd&#8217;s<\/a> been writing about in the Times and in her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0399153322\/104-9692217-0005556?v=glance&amp;n=283155&amp;n=507846&amp;s=books&amp;v=glance\">new book<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s worth reading Linda Hirschman&#8217;s article &quot;Homeward Bound.&quot;&nbsp; She argues that the real glass ceiling isn&#8217;t in the executive suite, but the home.&nbsp; Hirschman surveyed high-powered brides and grooms from the New York Times wedding section and tracked their career choices over time.&nbsp; Almost all chose to stay home.&nbsp; She argues that these well-educated, high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}