Families That Work: Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment

by Marcia K. Meyers and Janet C. Gornick

Book Overview

Parents around the world grapple with the common challenge of balancing work and child care. Despite common problems, the industrialized nations have developed dramatically different social and labor market policies--policies that vary widely in the level of support they provide for parents and the extent to which they encourage an equal division of labor between parents as they balance work and care. In Families That Work, Janet Gornick and Marcia...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871543591
• ISBN13: 9780871543592
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"