Imagined futures of the everyday: middle class households in south-east London by Miller, M

“…Objects are demonstrated to be both the means through which householders attempt to make household life what they want it to be – their potentiality shaping and enabling imagined futures – and the means through which these imagined futures are reconfigured or derailed. The period of maternity leave, that all three of my women participants were in the midst of, is shown to be one in which the work of bringing the household's imagined futures, and children's imagined futures to fruition falls disproportionately to mothers, often at the expense of their own wants. …”

The social construction of domestic space in the Brezhnev era by Smolyak, O

“…Demographic research directed government on towards legislation on maternity leave, improved working conditions for women, as well as improved services, such as crèches, canteens, or laundries. …”

Work-family balance experience of Omani career women by Abd. Ghafar, Najwa

“…The finding also reveals that Oman lacks of the structural support for women workforce. The paid maternity leave is short and working mothers are suffering from lack of childcare facilities. …”
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Work- family balance experience of omani career women by Abd. Ghafar, Najwa

“…The finding also reveals that Oman lacks of the structural support for women workforce. The paid maternity leave is short and working mothers are suffering from lack of childcare facilities. …”
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Fattened flattened tongue ties: performing maternality online and offline by Benigson, H

“…</p> <p>My research designates a space for a temporary loss of language for the (m)other, at the point of maternality, through a play on words from “mother tongue” to “(m)other tongue-tie”, drawing on my experience of mastitis from breastfeeding my tongue-tied baby during Maternity Leave. I orientate this research through three works in particular, grouped under <u>Screen</u>, which all navigate a maternal subject in varying states of “tongue-tie”. …”

Work-family policy in the United States and Germany: sub-federal and employer-provided policy by von Gleichen, R

“…The paper offers a theoretical contribution by suggesting that the explanatory power of normative versus economic theories of employer provision is gendered: While employer-provided maternity leave in context of generous public policy is better explained by normative arguments, economic explanations better fit provision patterns of employer paternity leave. …”