Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving by Collins, Caitlyn
Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving by Collins, Caitlyn

Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving

A moving, cross-national account of working mothers' daily lives--and the revolution in public policy and culture needed...
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Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving by Collins, Caitlyn

Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving

$604.59
Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving by Collins, Caitlyn

Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving

$604.59
Author: Caitlyn Collins
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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? Making Motherhood Work draws on interviews that sociologist 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, neighborhoods, and workplaces, Collins shows that mothers' desires and expectations depend heavily on context. In Sweden--renowned for its gender-equal policies--mothers assume they will receive support from their partners, employers, and the government. In the former East Germany, with its history of mandated employment, mothers don't feel conflicted about working, but some curtail their work hours and ambitions. Mothers in western Germany and Italy, where maternalist values are strong, are stigmatized for pursuing careers. Meanwhile, American working mothers stand apart for their guilt and worry. Policies alone, Collins discovers, cannot solve women's struggles. Easing them will require a deeper understanding of cultural beliefs about gender equality, employment, and motherhood. With women held to unrealistic standards in all four countries, the best solutions demand that we redefine motherhood, work, and family.

Making Motherhood Work vividly demonstrates that women need not accept their work-family conflict as inevitable.

Author: Caitlyn Collins
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 02/12/2019
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.30w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780691178851


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/10/2018

About the Author
Caitlyn Collins is assistant professor of sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. Her work has been covered by the Atlantic, NPR, and the Washington Post. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
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