Description Working mothers today confront not only conflicting demands on their time and energy but also conflicting ideas about how they are to behave: they must be nurturing and unselfish while engaged in child rearing but competitive and ambitious at work.
Instead, Sharon Hays points out in this original and provocative book, an ideology of "in.
As more and more women enter the workplace, it would seem reasonable for society to make mothering a simpler and more efficient task.
Description Working mothers today confront not only conflicting demands on their time and energy but also conflicting ideas about how they are to behave: they must be nurturing and unselfish while engaged in child rearing but competitive and ambitious at work