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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Caitlyn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working mothers.

Working mothers--Cross-cultural studies.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Nonfiction.

Physical Description:

xvii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2019.

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691178851

0691178852

OCLC:

1032654613