Description: Making Motherhood Work : How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving, Paperback by Collins, Caitlyn, ISBN 0691202400, ISBN-13 9780691202402, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
A moving 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 social policies aren’t helping. Of all Western industrialized countries, the United States ranks dead last for supportive work-family policies. Can American women look to Europe for solutions? Making Motherhood Work draws on interviews that Caitlyn Collins conducted over five years with 135 middle-class working mothers in Sweden, Germany, Italy, and the United States. She explores how women navigate work and family given the different policy supports available in each country. Taking readers into women’s homes, neighborhoods, and workplaces, Collins shows that mothers’ expectations depend on context and that policies alone cannot solve women’s struggles. With women held to unrealistic standards, the best solutions demand that we redefine motherhood, work, and family.
This edition includes discussion questions for reading groups.
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Book Title: Making Motherhood Work : How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Making Motherhood Work : How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: Public Policy / Cultural Policy, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Item Weight: 12.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Caitlyn Collins
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science
Item Length: 8.1 in
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
