Abstract
Having gone through the history of women and the situation of family support in different countries, in this chapter and the following we will fully enter into the contradictions and paradoxes in women as agents of change, and the tensions existing between work and family.
‘People who have good lives are those who go in search of the circumstances they want, and if they do not find them, they make them, they manufacture them.’
Bernard Shaw
‘The greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices and the greatest virtues.’
René Descartes
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Notes
Mary Anne Devanna, Male/Female Careers. The First Decade, Columbia University, Columbia, 1984 (p. 50).
Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Woman’s Development, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1982 (p. 29).
Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis, Resonant Leaders Create More, Plaza y Janés, Barcelona, 2002.
Daniel Goleman, The Practice of Emotional Intelligence, Kairós, Barcelona, 1999.
J.A. Pérez, Women and their Success, Eunsa, Pamplona, Spain, 1999 (p. 55).
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Chinchilla, N., León, C. (2005). Women: Agents of Change?. In: Female Ambition. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230508910_4
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