The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued

By A. Crittenden. 2001

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A New Approach to Explaining Fertility Patterns: Preference Theory (2003, background): “Crittenden (2001) maintains that in the United States fulltime parenting tends to be equated with “doing nothing.””
Cognitive Acrobatics in the Construction of Worker–mother Identity (2007, background): “The economics of worker–mother identity construction is often overlooked ( Crittenden 2001 ).”
Winners and losers: The consequences of welfare state policies for gender wage inequality (2012, background): “In that regard, family policy may lower the motherhood penalty, primarily by facilitating women’s labour market activity (e.g., Crittenden, 2001; Harkness and Waldfogel, 2003, Rake, 2000; Sigle-Rushton and Waldfogel, 2007).”
Different Things Make Different People Happy: Examining Social Capital and Subjective Well-Being by Gender and Parental Status (2011, background): “Earlier research had also revealed that the pay gap between mothers and nonmothers is actually larger than the pay gap between men and women (Crittenden 2001).”
The Maternal Wall (2004, background): “versus “other” (Crittenden, 2001).”