Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times
Author
Jessica Halliday Hardie
Content
xv + 257 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Oakland: University of California Press
Description
Based on interviews with 61 black and white young women from poor, working-class, and middle-class backgrounds in the United States who intended to pursue jobs in health fields. High school juniors and seniors were interviewed in 2008, and 41 of these women were also interviewed in 2013 and 2014 when they were 21–24 years old.
Main subject
Business and Work Education Sociology and Social Issues
Hardie, Jessica Halliday. Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. Sylvia. Accessed June 14, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL2293.