Making Motherhood Work

Name: Making Motherhood Work
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SKU: 9780691202402
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How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving

By Caitlyn Collins

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Making Motherhood Work by Caitlyn Collins explores the daily realities of working mothers across the United States, Sweden, Germany, and Italy. Based on five years of interviews with 135 middle-class working mothers, the book examines how different social policies shape women's experiences of balancing employment and parenting. Collins reveals that while policy support varies widely, cultural expectations and systemic challenges persist everywhere, calling for a redefinition of motherhood, work, and family roles to genuinely support women.
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Essential reading for students and scholars of sociology, gender studies, public policy, and for anyone interested in work-family balance and women's issues.

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

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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 industrialised 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, neighbourhoods, 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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Award-winning and acclaimed, this book co-won the William J. Goode Book Award from the American Sociological Association and secured the PROSE Award in Anthropology, Criminology, and Sociology. It also earned a Bronze Medal from the Axiom Business Book Awards recognising its impact on discussions around women and minorities in business.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780691202402

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 May 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Princeton University Press

Illustration: 12 b/w illus. 4 tables.

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 133.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 360

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Caitlyn Collins Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Caitlyn Collins is assistant professor of sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. Her work has been covered by the New York Times, NPR, and the Washington Post.