Navigating Mothering: A Feminist Analysis of Frequent Work Travel and Independence in Families.
Competing cultural and gender expectations, especially aligned around paid and family work, make the contemporary experience of mothering difficult. The goal of this study is to illuminate, through the use of a feminist perspective, how families handle demands of paid and family work, along with the...
| Publicado en: | Sex Roles Vol. 74; no. 11-12; pp. 543 - 558 |
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Springer Nature
May2016
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