Halving it All: How Equally Shared Parenting Works - Hardcover

Deutsch, Francine M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674368002 ISBN 13: 9780674368002

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1999

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Book by Deutsch Francine M

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This well-constructed text is the result of an equally well-constructed research project funded by the National Science Foundation...Anyone interested in family life will be fascinated with the stories of how families work out the division of labor at home.--Mary Katherine O'Connor "Science Books and Films "

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Francine Deutsch argues that the best way to have it all - both a full family life and a career - is to halve it all. She comes to this conclusion having interviewed a wide range of couples. Deutsch casts a skeptical eye on the grim story of inequality that has been told since women found themselves working a second shift at home. Using vivid quotations from her interviews, Deutsch tells the story of couples who share parenting equally, and some who don't. The differences between the groups are not in politics, education, or class, but in the way each negotiates the large and small issues - from whose paid job is "important" to who applies the sunscreen. With the majority of mothers in the workforce, parents today have to find ways of sharing the work at home. Rigid ideas of "good mothers" and "good fathers", Deutsch argues, can be transformed into a more flexible reality - the good parent.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0674368002
• ISBN 13: 9780674368002
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336