"Soccer moms" and the new care work

Arendell, Teresa. “"Soccer moms" and the new care work”. Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper No. 16, Berkeley, CA: Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4120.
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Abstract

Contemporary mothers are engaged in modern motherhood: holding employment and rearing children concurrently. Further, modern mothers seek to secure for their children the modernized childhood, which involves a high degree of involvement by children in extracurricular lessons, sports, and other activities. Coordinating these activities constitutes the new maternal care work. Based on in-depth interviews with 23 northern California employed, married, middle-class mothers, I examine how mothers manage their families' busy schedules and monitor their children's daily lives. I investigate mothers' strategies for managing their everyday lives in the context of time. Three strategies of action predominate: managing time, scaling back, and using help.

Title
"Soccer moms" and the new care work
Author
Arendell, Teresa
Center
Work and Family Research Network
Genre
working paper
Date Issued
2000
Publisher
Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley
Extent
48 p.
Series Title
Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper
Series Number
No. 16
General Note
Teresa Arendell is a professor of sociology at Colby College, Waterville, Maine. She was a senior postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Working Families during 1998-99.
Persistent Link
http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4120
Use Restrictions
Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States" (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/)

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