By Alice W Clark
This publication reports the transition of enterprise and self-identity in young women aspiring for a career.
Valued Daughters lines the unfold of ambition for lifetime careers between younger ladies in city India, who're effecting many adjustments by way of stepping out in their conventional roles to pursue better schooling and jobs. It analyses intersecting transitions—demographic, academic, financial, social, and cultural, with their person histories and trajectories—that shape the context of this examine. utilizing first-hand narratives of ladies and their households, this booklet illustrates a brand new and altering feel of self between those daughters, whose moms by no means had careers in their own.
Focusing at the means those younger career-oriented ladies interact with fast society and the realm at huge, this ebook explores how they view conventional roles and the way they're, in flip, considered by way of the society.
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