Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving Collins Caitlyn
Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving Collins Caitlyn A moving account of working mothers' daily lives--and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve…
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Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving Collins Caitlyn
A moving 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. Of all Western industrialized countries, the United States ranks dead last for supportive work-family policies. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and social policies aren't helping.
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. Can American women look to Europe for solutions? 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