Making motherhood work how women manage careers and caregiving
The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and social policies aren’t helping. Of all Western industrialized countries, the United States ranks dead last for supportive work-family policies. Can Amer...
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Princeton University Press
[2020]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 1 SOS
- 2 Sweden: "It is easy in Sweden to work and have kids."
- 3 Former East Germany: "I wouldn't know how to handle forty hours. . . . That's no life."
- 4 Western Germany: " 'You are a career whore,' they say in Germany."
- 5 Italy: "Nobody helps me. It is very difficult in Italy."
- 6 The United States: "We can't figure out how to do it all at the same time."
- 7 Politicizing mothers' work-family conflict
- Appendix A: Notes on methods
- Appendix B: Interview schedule