Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving

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Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving
Screenshot of Video Webinar: Emily Terrani and Caitlyn Collins, Making Motherhood Work

The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress is constant. Social policies don’t help. Of all Western industrialized countries, the United States ranks dead last for supportive work-family policies: No federal paid parental leave. The highest gender wage gap. No minimum standard for vacation and sick days. The highest maternal and child poverty rates. Can American women look to European policies for solutions? Sociologist Caitlyn Collins shares insights from her first book, Making Motherhood Work, which draws on interviews that she conducted over five years with 135 middle-class working mothers in Sweden, Germany, Italy, and the United States. She explores how women navigate work and family given the different policy supports available in each country.

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