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Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood

by Helen McCarthy

A groundbreaking history of mothers who worked for pay that will change the way we think about gender, work and equality in modern Britain. In Britain today, three-quarters of mothers are in employment and paid work is an unremarkable feature of women’s lives after childbirth. Yet a century ago, working mothers were in the minority, excluded altogether from

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

560

ISBN

9781408870730