Preface / Janice Fanning Madden -- Overviews -- The Long road to the fast tracts : career and family / Claudia Goldin -- Family-friendly workplace reforms : prospects for change / Amy L. Wax -- Fast-track women and the "choice" to stay home / Pamela Stone and Meg Lovejoy -- Within the professions -- Marriage and baby blues : redefining gender euquity in the academy / Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden -- Overworked faculty : job stresses and family demands / Jerry A. Jacobs and Sarah E. Winslow -- The Mommy tract and partnership : temporary delay or dead end ? / Mary C. Noonan and Mary E. Corcoran -- Mothers in finance : surviving and thriving / Mary Blair-loy and Amy S. Wharton -- The Evolution of gender and motherhppd in contemporary medicine / Ann Boulis -- Comments and other contexts -- Mommies and daddies on the fast track in other wealthy nations / Gwen Moore -- Elite careers and family commitment : it's (still) about gender / Scott Coltrane -- Where we are now and future possibilities / Joy P. Jacobsen -- Policy alternatives for solving work-family conflict / Heidi Hartmann -- Book review essay : the Contemporary myth of choice / Rosanna Hertz -- Quick read synopsis -- Mommies and addies on the fast track : success of parents in demanding professions.
