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Book Review: Weaving Work and Motherhood

Book Review: Weaving Work and Motherhood 112 Affilia Spring 2001 Weaving Work and Motherhood. By Anita Ilta Garey. Philadel phia: Temple University Press, 1999, 239 pp., $59.50 (hard- bound), $19.95 (paper). A perpetual struggle for working women is the balancing of career- and job-related responsibilities with family commit- ments. In an engaging manner, Weaving Work and Motherhood examines how women interweave their dichotomous commit- ments to their children and their work. Through a qualitative analysis of working mothers who are employed in a hospital setting, the author skillfully discusses the strategies that women use to balance these responsibilities in terms of time constraints, competing demands, role conflicts, and societal ex- pectations, among other factors. The strength of Garey’s research is that it bridges racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic barriers, but a limitation is that the author examined only one type of em- ployment setting—a hospital—because women’s struggles and the dynamics women encounter in other settings may be different. The author documents well the types of strategies that women create to cope with their life circumstances and the fact that work and family patterns often change over time. Her research indicates that flexibility and variation are key factors in the lives of employed women with families. Although http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

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112 Affilia Spring 2001 Weaving Work and Motherhood. By Anita Ilta Garey. Philadel phia: Temple University Press, 1999, 239 pp., $59.50 (hard- bound), $19.95 (paper). A perpetual struggle for working women is the balancing of career- and job-related responsibilities with family commit- ments. In an engaging manner, Weaving Work and Motherhood examines how women interweave their dichotomous commit- ments to their children and their work. Through a qualitative analysis of working mothers who are employed in a hospital setting, the author skillfully discusses the strategies that women use to balance these responsibilities in terms of time constraints, competing demands, role conflicts, and societal ex- pectations, among other factors. The strength of Garey’s research is that it bridges racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic barriers, but a limitation is that the author examined only one type of em- ployment setting—a hospital—because women’s struggles and the dynamics women encounter in other settings may be different. The author documents well the types of strategies that women create to cope with their life circumstances and the fact that work and family patterns often change over time. Her research indicates that flexibility and variation are key factors in the lives of employed women with families. Although

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Published: Feb 1, 2001

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