From professionals to professional mothers?: how college-educated, married mothers experience unemployment in the US

• Main Author: RAO, Aliya Hamid
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: gender; motherhood; professionals; unemployment; Family, Life Course, and Society; Work, Economy and Organizations
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3126; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4383/viewcontent/From_professionals___PV.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Unemployment influences life experiences and outcomes, but how it does so may be shaped by gender and parenthood. Because research on unemployment focuses on men’s experiences of unemployment, it presents as universal a process that may be gendered. This article asks: how do college-educated, hetero...