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 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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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2019.
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Table des matières:
- 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.


