Describe the choice gap and how this impacts women in today’s families. How do the ideologies and practices of “intensive mothering” and “ideal workers” place these women between a rock and a hard place.

According to Pamela Stone in Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home (2008), the women in her study faced a “choice gap.” Describe the choice gap and how this impacts women in today’s families. How do the ideologies and practices of “intensive mothering” and “ideal workers” place these women between a rock and a hard place? Discuss the identity crisis faced by many of these professional women when they became stay-at-home mothers and how they adjusted to their new identities.This assignment is worth 50 points. The purpose of this assignment is threefold: to challenge you (1) to explore the course material in various ways (outside of lecture/commentary); (2) to explore the ways in which social class and gender shape family life; and (3) to work on communicating ideas and class material in ways beyond memorization.Moreover, the goal is to encourage you to recognize how family choices (e.g. to work or to stay home with children) are shaped by larger forces (specifically, cultural assumptions about gender and gender roles). Stone’s work is centered on the idea that women’s “choice” to stay home isn’t always a “choice”—largely because cultural gendered expectations limit the opportunities that women have to choose from. Stone provides detailed examples of how this “choice gap” plays out in everyday life. You should be able to draw on these examples effectively.As with all papers for this course, your assignment should adhere to the following guidelines:approximately 2 pages in length (can be about 15 lines less than or 5 lines more than 2 pages), with as much as 10 lines allowed for header and title lines before the body of your main text beginssingle-spaced, without formatting that adds extra space after each line, and with a single blank space before each additional paragraph and at least one single blank space before and after any title to your paper1″ margins12-point fontsingle spacing for references at the end of the paper, with a single space before each additional reference