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Making motherhood work : how women manage careers and caregiving / Caitlyn Collins.

Collins, Caitlyn, (author.).

Summary:

A cross-national account of working mothers' daily lives--and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve them.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0691178852
  • ISBN: 9780691178851
  • Physical Description: xvii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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." -- 6 The United States: "We can't figure out how to do it all at the same time." -- Politicizing mothers' work-family conflict.
Subject:
Working mothers.
Working mothers > Cross-cultural studies.

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