Writing with a keen eye for detail as well as a real empathy with the first generation of wage-earning women, Tentler …

. For the Family? concludes that the public debate about women's work remains focused on need because women themselves …, class, race, and familial support, most women explained their work decisions by pointing to family needs, connecting work to …"In the emotional public debate about women and work, conventional wisdom holds that middle-class women "choose …