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Science 15 February 2008:
Vol. 319. no. 5865, pp. 903 - 904
DOI: 10.1126/science.1153865
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SOCIOLOGY:
It's Constraints, Not Choices

Phyllis Moen

Opting Out?
Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home
by Pamela Stone
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2007. 313 pp. $24.95, £14.95. ISBN 9780520244351.
Challenging media claims of a return to tradition, Stone offers a detailed consideration of the reasons why many professional women with children leave the workplace.
The reviewer, coauthor with Patricia Roehling of The Career Mystique: Cracks in the American Dream, is at the Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, 909 Social Sciences Building, 267 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. E-mail: phylmoen{at}umn.edu

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