Making motherhood work: how women manage careers and caregiving

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Sweden: "It is easy in Sweden to work and have kids."

Former East Germany: "I wouldn't know how to handle forty hours. . . . That's no life."

Western Germany: " 'You are a career whore,' they say in Germany."

Italy: "Nobody helps me. It is very difficult in Italy."

6 The United States: "We can't figure out how to do it all at the same time."

Politicizing mothers' work-family conflict.