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The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work

The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work Jenny Brown 893340 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796019893340New Labor ForumBrown research-article2020 New Labor Forum 2020, Vol. 29(1) 58 –66 The Hidden Fight over Copyright © 2020, The Murphy Institute, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies Article reuse guidelines: Women’s Work sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796019893340 DOI: 10.1177/1095796019893340 journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf Jenny Brown Keywords women workers, feminism, demography, social reproduction, child care The U.S. birth rate is now the lowest it has ever then an additional eight hours a day of unpaid been. Other countries, confronting low birth rates care work and housework. Others recount dif- in the twentieth century, instituted supports to ficulty finding partners who are willing to take make raising children more appealing. They pro- the plunge into parenthood, wary of the time vided universal child care, health care, paid leave, commitment and costs. Some say they were child allowances, and shorter working hours. The deterred by memories of their mothers’ struggle United States, by contrast, has taken the low-cost to raise them. route to raising new generations: poor access to As in other countries with modest birth rates, birth control and abortion. But despite these government and corporate planners from both obstacles, women are refusing. This article will sides of the aisle would like http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work

Brown, Jenny
New Labor Forum , Volume 29 (1): 9 – Jan 1, 2020
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Jenny Brown 893340 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796019893340New Labor ForumBrown research-article2020 New Labor Forum 2020, Vol. 29(1) 58 –66 The Hidden Fight over Copyright © 2020, The Murphy Institute, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies Article reuse guidelines: Women’s Work sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796019893340 DOI: 10.1177/1095796019893340 journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf Jenny Brown Keywords women workers, feminism, demography, social reproduction, child care The U.S. birth rate is now the lowest it has ever then an additional eight hours a day of unpaid been. Other countries, confronting low birth rates care work and housework. Others recount dif- in the twentieth century, instituted supports to ficulty finding partners who are willing to take make raising children more appealing. They pro- the plunge into parenthood, wary of the time vided universal child care, health care, paid leave, commitment and costs. Some say they were child allowances, and shorter working hours. The deterred by memories of their mothers’ struggle United States, by contrast, has taken the low-cost to raise them. route to raising new generations: poor access to As in other countries with modest birth rates, birth control and abortion. But despite these government and corporate planners from both obstacles, women are refusing. This article will sides of the aisle would like

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