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Mediating postcolonial pregnancies in neoliberal times
Madhurima Das,Dibyadyuti Roy +1 more
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In this paper, seven working, mother entrepreneurs share tips on work-life balance with respect to organizing and willful to fulfill both the roles successfully, including: "All women need to be well organized and willful.Abstract:
“All we women need to be well organized and willful to fulfil both the roles successfully.”–Jimmy Kaul, CEO, Shopotox(“7 working, mother entrepreneurs share tips on work-life balance”, Jain 2017)Du...read more
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The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued
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Performing pregnancy: Comic content, critique and ambivalence in pregnant stand-up comedy
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The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued
TL;DR: The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued as discussed by the authors is a review of the current social scientific research documenting the fact that raising children may be the most important job in the world, but you can't put it on a resume.
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Doing Comparable Worth: Gender, Class, and Pay Equity
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Doing Comparable Worth: Gender, Class and Pay Equity
TL;DR: Acker et al. as mentioned in this paper, 1989 Doing Comparable Worth: Gender, Class and Pay Equity. Temple University Press, New York, USA. But they did not consider race.
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Conceiving Intensive Mothering
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that women's current split subjectivity and agency between the old "?deal\"Mothersubjectposition and a newfeminist mothering subject position will ultimately lead to women's inability to theorize fully intensive mothering.