{"id":658,"date":"2011-03-10T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=658"},"modified":"2011-11-07T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:26:09","slug":"the-rhetoric-and-reality-of-opting-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2011\/03\/10\/the-rhetoric-and-reality-of-opting-out\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rhetoric and Reality of Opting Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by TinyTall on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/32159182@N00\/5427320600\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5256\/5427320600_7162291b4d_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Business Look\" \/><\/a>For any gender, family, or business related lecture, we recommend &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asanet.org\/images\/press\/docs\/pdf\/Fall07CNTFeature.pdf\">The Rhetoric and Reality of Opting Out<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; (<em>Contexts, <\/em>Fall 2007) which you can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asanet.org\/images\/press\/docs\/pdf\/Fall07CNTFeature.pdf\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve created discussion questions as well as an activity for you to use with this article in the classroom:<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How does your generation view mothers who stay at home? How have these perceptions changed from your parents\u2019 and grandparents\u2019 generations? Is this change positive or problematic in your opinion?<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to Stone, what is the real culprit behind more and more mothers dropping out of the workforce? What are some underlying problems with many \u201cfamily friendly\u201d work arrangements?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ACTIVITY: Assume you\u2019ve been given the task of re-designing your company\u2019s workplace environment and scheduling norms so they are better suited for the types of working parents highlighted in this article. How could you change the work culture so mothers weren\u2019t penalized for taking advantage of flexible work arrangements? Could any other problems result from your solutions?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For any gender, family, or business related lecture, we recommend &#8220;The Rhetoric and Reality of Opting Out&#8221; (Contexts, Fall 2007) which you can read here. We&#8217;ve created discussion questions as well as an activity for you to use with this article in the classroom: 1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How does your generation view mothers who stay at home? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127403],"tags":[70,55,838,76],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-resources","tag-family","tag-gender","tag-readings","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}