图书标签: 社会学 家庭 motherhood 积极心理学
发表于2024-12-23
The Price of Motherhood pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
Many mothers have long suspected that they're getting the short end of the deal--and finally, a highly respected economics journalist proves they're not just griping. Despite all the lip service given to the importance of motherhood, American mothers are not only not paid for all the work they do, but also penalized for it. "The gift of care can be both selfless and exploited," writes Ann Crittenden in this intrepid and groundbreaking work. Motherhood is dangerously undervalued--it's now the single biggest risk factor for poverty in old age. Mothers lose out in forgone income if they stay at home, an inflexible job market makes part-time work scarce or inadequately paid, and in the case of divorce, they're refused family assets by divorce laws that don't count their unpaid work.
Crittenden is fond of pointing out the hypocrisies plaguing America, and one is the belief in a welfare state enabling single mothers. The true welfare state, she says, protects paid workers from unforeseen risks through social security, unemployment insurance, and workman's compensation. Mothers who work part-time or not at all have no such safety net and typically take a nosedive into poverty, along with their children, after divorce or the death of their spouse. Married working moms are also punished--they pay the highest taxes on earned income in America. Crittenden's impassioned argument is based on research in a variety of fields, from economics to child development to demography. She shows how mothers were demoted from an economic asset to dependents, why welfare for only a certain group of mothers bred bitterness among the rest, and why there is currently an exodus of highly trained women from the work force.
Crittenden also travels far and wide for solutions. She finds them not only in such European nations as Sweden--which has abolished child poverty by giving mothers a year's paid leave, cash subsidies, and flexible work schedules--but in the U.S. military, which runs the best subsidized child-care program in the country and knows the value of providing special benefits to those who selflessly serve their country. Ultimately, Crittenden insists, the equality women have been fighting for will only be achieved when mothers are recognized as productive citizens creating a much-needed public good--human capital, or in layman's terms, well-raised children who grow into productive, law abiding citizens (and who pay into social security). This is an admirable--and charged--defense of motherhood, reminding us that unpaid female labor is "the priceless, invisible heart of the economy," and those who engage in this labor deserve the same rights, and the same respect, as other workers. --Lesley Reed, Amazon.com Reviews
很cliche的一个标题,但是写的超棒,完全颠覆了我对全职妈妈的认识和二把刀学经济学下来的一下最基本的assumptions. 大学最后能读这么一个让人读完热血沸腾的东西,也就可以了吧。
评分很cliche的一个标题,但是写的超棒,完全颠覆了我对全职妈妈的认识和二把刀学经济学下来的一下最基本的assumptions. 大学最后能读这么一个让人读完热血沸腾的东西,也就可以了吧。
评分很cliche的一个标题,但是写的超棒,完全颠覆了我对全职妈妈的认识和二把刀学经济学下来的一下最基本的assumptions. 大学最后能读这么一个让人读完热血沸腾的东西,也就可以了吧。
评分很cliche的一个标题,但是写的超棒,完全颠覆了我对全职妈妈的认识和二把刀学经济学下来的一下最基本的assumptions. 大学最后能读这么一个让人读完热血沸腾的东西,也就可以了吧。
评分很cliche的一个标题,但是写的超棒,完全颠覆了我对全职妈妈的认识和二把刀学经济学下来的一下最基本的assumptions. 大学最后能读这么一个让人读完热血沸腾的东西,也就可以了吧。
For women living in a modern society, the single most important life decision is probably whether to become a mother. The answer will change her life from the core forever. As the author puts it, after becoming a mother, women usually feel blindsided by two...
评分For women living in a modern society, the single most important life decision is probably whether to become a mother. The answer will change her life from the core forever. As the author puts it, after becoming a mother, women usually feel blindsided by two...
评分For women living in a modern society, the single most important life decision is probably whether to become a mother. The answer will change her life from the core forever. As the author puts it, after becoming a mother, women usually feel blindsided by two...
评分For women living in a modern society, the single most important life decision is probably whether to become a mother. The answer will change her life from the core forever. As the author puts it, after becoming a mother, women usually feel blindsided by two...
评分For women living in a modern society, the single most important life decision is probably whether to become a mother. The answer will change her life from the core forever. As the author puts it, after becoming a mother, women usually feel blindsided by two...
The Price of Motherhood pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024