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Making motherhood work : how women manage careers and caregiving /

A moving, cross-national account of working mothers' daily lives-and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve them. The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress is...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Collins, Caitlyn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a SOS -- Sweden : "It is easy in Sweden to work and have kids" -- Former East Germany : "I wouldn't know how to handle forty hours ... That's no life" -- Western Germany : " 'You are a career whore, ' they say in Germany" -- Italy : "Nobody helps me. It is very difficult in Italy" -- The United States : "We can't figure out how to do it all at the same time" -- Politicizing mothers' work-family conflict. 
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