Title: Not guilty! : the good news about working mothers /
Authors: Holcomb, Betty.
Publisher: Scribner,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Working mothers United States; Mothers Employment United States
Abstract: Dispels the convention that women who stay at home are better mothers, drawing on decades of research to reassure women they can benefit their children by working.
Contents: Supermom's daughters: the birth of a new pessimism -- Homeward bound? The feminine mystique circa the 1990s -- Marketing the mystique: for profit and ideology -- What about your kids? Stigmatizing ambition -- Mothers not welcome here: how the myths fuel discrimination -- You had the baby, it's your problem! Justifying the inflexible workplace -- Will only mommy do? The power of scientific myths -- In the care of strangers: Day care's enduring stigma -- The new math: Does it pay to work? The myth of "choice" about working -- Women's puny paychecks: how they got so small -- It does take a village to raise a child: the myth of personal responsibility -- Whose family values? The politics that devalue working mothers -- Yes, families are changing--For the better -- Not guilty! From angst to anger.