Making Motherhood Work : How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving /

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

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Collins, Caitlyn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Working mothers.
Work and family.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Travail et familles.
Meres au travail.
Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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