Making Motherhood Work
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...
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...
