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Mothers and Working Mothers by Jan Harper and Lyn Richards is a business book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Mothers and Working Mothers about?
Factors surrounding the work home interface - choices, attitudes and pressures are examined. Choices are based on a number of pushes and pulls, the most concrete being financial need and a preference for personal child care. Personal growth through work balances the ' hassle' of the dual role. Stereotypes surrounding the role of ' housewife' and 'working mother' both tend to be negative. Women favour part time work as a compromise solution. Many other solutions have serious pitfalls. That of par
Who reads Mothers and Working Mothers?
It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- Jan Harper and Lyn Richards
- Publisher
- Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin Books Australia
- Published
- 1979
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140220506
- Category
- business
- Subjects
- Economics, Management, Business
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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