The authors highlight how structural circumstances in countries with various degrees of industrialization are associated with specific policies. The analyses of

Despite the pervasive changes that have taken place in women’s lives in the past twenty-five years--increased participation in the labor force, the attainment

This examination of the extraordinary juggling skills of working women who balance obligations to work & family goes beyond description of possible conflicts of

For centuries, almost all economic activity was family-based. The family business rested on the division of labor among family members. Therefore the family was

The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and social polic