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Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
What the financial diaries of working-class families reveal about economic stresses, why they happen, and what policies might reduce them
Deep within the American Dream lies the belief that hard work and steady saving will ensure a comfortable retirement and a better life for one's children. But in a nation experiencing unprecedented prosperity, even for many families who seem to be doing everything right, this ideal is still out of
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