The price of motherhood : why the most important job in the world is still the least valued / Ann Crittenden.

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Crittenden, Ann

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TextPublication details: New York : Metropolitan Books, c2001.Description: 323 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

0805066187
9780805066180

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In the pathbreaking tradition of Backlash and The Second Shift, Labor of Love opens the last frontier in the fight for women's equality: the economic penalties of motherhood.

In this provocative book, award-winning economics journalist Ann Critten argues that although women have been liberated, mothers have not. Drawing on hundreds of interviews around the country and the most current research in economics, history, child development, and law, she shows how mothers are systematically disadvantaged and made depent by a society that praises the labor of love but undervalues and even exploits those who perform it.

The costs of motherhood are apparent everywhere. College-educated women pay a "mommy tax" of more than a million dollars in lost income when they have a child. Family law deprives mothers of financial equality in marriage. Most child care is excluded from the GDP, at-home mothers are not counted in the labor force, and the social safety net simply leaves them out. With passion and clarity, Critten dismantles the principal argument for the status quo: that it's a woman's "choice." She demonstrates, on the contrary, that proper recognition and reward for mothers' essential contributions would only enhance the welfare of all.

Bold and galvanizing, full of innovative solutions, Labor of Love offers a much-needed accounting of the price mothers pay to carry out society's most important job.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-303) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Introduction (p. 1)
1 Where We Are Now (p. 13)
2 A Conspiracy of Silence (p. 28)
3 How Mothers' Work Was "Disappeared": The Invention of the Unproductive Housewife (p. 45)
4 The Truly Invisible Hand (p. 65)
5 The Mommy Tax (p. 87)
6 The Dark Little Secret of Family Life (p. 110)
7 What Is a Wife Worth? (p. 131)
8 Who Really Owns the Family Wage? (p. 149)
9 Who Pays for the Kids? (p. 162)
10 The Welfare State Versus a Caring State (p. 186)
11 The Toughest Job You'll Ever Love (p. 202)
12 An Accident Waiting to Happen (p. 218)
13 "It Was Her Choice" (p. 233)
Conclusion: How to Bring Children Up Without Putting Women Down (p. 256)
Notes (p. 275)
Acknowledgments (p. 305)
Index (p. 309)

Excerpt provided by Syndetics

Most mothers are formally "dependents" in marriage, not economic equals. They have no unequivocal right to half the family assets, and are not considered joint recipients of the primary breadwinner's income-during or after marriage. --The wage gap between mothers and childless women is now greater than that between young men and young women. --Nannies qualify for Social Security but mothers do not. --Mothers' lack of financial power in marriage deprives children; fathers are statistically less likely to spend their money on children's health and education. Excerpted from The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued by Ann Crittenden All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Ann Crittenden is the author of Killing Sacred Cows: Bold Ideas for a New Economy. A former reporter for the New York Times and a Pulitzer Prize nominee, she has also been a financial writer for Newsweek, a visiting lecturer at M.I.T. and Yale, and an economics commentator for CBS News. Her articles have appeared in Fortune, The Nation, Foreign Affairs, McCall's, and Working Woman, among others. She lives with her husband and son in Washington, D.C.

(Bowker Author Biography)