Contemporary motherhood
Subtitle: the impact of children on adult time
By: by Lyn Craig.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754649984
Subjects: Child rearing -- Study and teaching; Parenting -- Economic aspects; Time measurements; Family -- Research
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Approach, data and method. Calculating the costs of children; title: The time penalty of parenthood. Time allocation by couples jointly. Time allocation by men and women individually. time allocation of sole parents; title: Gender equivalence or hidden inequity? Thesis: gender convergence in productive activity. Antithesis: gender inequity and the dual burden; title: Protecting parental time with kids? Maintaining time with children. How do working mothers maintain time with children?; title: Earning capacity versus caring capacity. The pull to the market; title: Cross-national comparison of the impact of children on adult time. Welfare regimes, gender and parental care.