This book explains why countries have adopted different policies for working parents through a comparative historical study of four nations: France, the Netherl

This work focuses on the social constructions of motherhood in Scandinavia and discusses questions of central concern to western industrialized nations, asking

This book uses data from Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden to rethink welfare policy.

Though women’s employment patterns in Europe have been changing drastically over several decades, the repercussions of this social revolution are just beginni

The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and social polic