Making Motherhood Work How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving

Free Download Caitlyn Collins, "Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving"
English | ISBN: 0691178852 | 2019 | 360 pages | PDF | 3 MB
A moving, cross-national 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 stress is constant. Social policies don’t help. Of all Western industrialized countries, the United States ranks dead last for supportive work-family policies: No federal paid parental leave. The highest gender wage gap. No minimum standard for vacation and sick days. The highest maternal and child poverty rates. Can American women look to European policies for solutions?
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