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Author Collins, Caitlyn, author.

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

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019]

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  306.8743 COLLINS    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  306.8743 COLLINS    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  306 COL    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  306.8743 COL    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  306 COL    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  306.8743 COLLINS    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  306 COLLINS    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Working mothers.
Working mothers -- Cross-cultural studies.
Working mothers. (OCoLC)fst01180647
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
ISBN 9780691178851 (hardcover)
0691178852 (hardcover)
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