Drawing on focus groups and interviews with thirty women who combine motherhood with paid work in Ireland, this book exposes the difficulties, complexities and dilemmas women experience and reveals that there is a complex system of inequality which occurs when women combine motherhood with paid work. These inequalities occur at individual, discursive, social and structural levels and their combination makes it difficult for women to satisfy working and mothering lives.
Contemporary society uses maternity to divide and conquer women, both in public and private spheres, and...
Drawing on focus groups and interviews with thirty women who combine motherhood with paid work in Ireland, this book exposes the difficulties, complex...
