Podcast appearances and mentions of caitlyn collins

Over many years of leading couples out of the sticky situation that is figuring out how to distribute household and family-related tasks fairly, I've come to realize that there's so much that's INVISIBLE that gets in our way and is SETTING MARRIAGES AND FAMILIES UP TO FAIL.I've enlisted the help of a Motherhood Sociologist, Dr. Caitlyn Collins, to help me make visible one of the most insidious hurdles. I guarantee your mind will be blown. Show Links:- Caitlyn's Book: How to Make Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving- Online Workshops with Mika- Sign up for Mika's Newsletter- Connect with Mika on IG- Disclaimer: www.mikaross.com/disclaimer

Episode 60: Work-Family Balance: What Can We Learn from Policies Around the World? with Caitlyn Collins  In this conversation, Rachael interviews Caitlyn Collins, an associate professor of sociology and author, about work-family life and how policies affect families in different countries. They discuss the differences between the United States, Sweden, Germany, Italy, and other countries in terms of parental leave, childcare, and work-life balance. Inside this episode: The importance of collective responsibility and cultural attitudes towards caregiving. How better policies can not only benefit families but also have economic and social benefits for society as a whole.  The importance of Caitlyn's book, Making Motherhood Work, which talks all about different countries and their different work-family policies and the work-family conflict that mothers (and fathers!) experience.  Why is Sweden often held up as a paragon of work-family policy? How division of labor and gender inequality in households differs in other countries. Changing the language around paid leave from “luck” to “rights” and why this can be a powerful shift Flexible work options for moms The potential for policy changes at the federal level in the United States. And so much more! Mentioned in this episode: Caitlyn's Book: Making Motherhood Work If you enjoyed this episode, please rate 5⭐️ and write us a review! ⬇️ ✨For sleep support and resources, visit heysleepybaby.com and follow @heysleepybaby on Instagram!

American policy is uniquely hostile to families. Other wealthy countries guarantee paid parental leave and sick days and heavily subsidize early childhood care — to the tune of about $14,000 per year per child, on average. (The United States, by contrast, spends around $500 per child per year.) So it's no wonder our birthrate has been in decline, with many people saying they're having fewer children than they would like.Yet if you look closer at those other wealthy countries, that story doesn't entirely hold. Sweden, for example, has some of the most generous work-family policies in the world, and according to the most recent numbers from Our World in Data, from 2021, their fertility rate is 1.67 children per woman — virtually identical to ours.Caitlyn Collins is a sociology professor at Washington University in St. Louis and the author of “Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving.” To understand how family policies affect the experience of child-rearing, she interviewed over a hundred middle-class mothers across four countries with different parenting cultures and levels of social support for families: the United States, Sweden, Italy and Germany. And what she finds is that policies can greatly relieve parents' stress, but cultural norms like “intensive parenting” remain consistent.In this conversation, we discuss how work-family policies in Sweden frame spending time with children as a right rather than a privilege, how these policies have transformed the gender norms around parenting, why family-friendly policies across the globe don't increase birthrates, how cultural pressures in America to be both an ideal worker and an ideal parent often clash, why many American parents feel it's impossible to have more than one or two children, how cultural discourse has led younger women to “dread” motherhood and more.Mentioned:“Parenthood and Happiness: Effects of Work-Family Reconciliation Policies in 22 OECD Countries” by Jennifer Glass, Robin W. Simon and Matthew A. Andersson“Is Maternal Guilt a Cross-National Experience?” by Caitlyn CollinsBook Recommendations:Competing Devotions by Mary Blair-LoyMothering While Black by Dawn Marie DowHope in the Dark by Rebecca SolnitThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Annie Galvin. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing from Efim Shapiro. Our senior editor is Claire Gordon. The show's production team also includes Rollin Hu and Kristin Lin. Original music by Isaac Jones. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. Special thanks to Sonia Herrero.

BV analyzes Donald Trump's Town Hall on CNN as he calls Caitlyn Collins a nasty woman and we find out the name of E. Jean Carroll's cat on News Radio KKOBSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, I have hosted Megan Tobias Neely, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School, and the author of the book “Hedged Out”. In the first part of the episode, we discussed her career path from the financial sector to academia. Afterward, we talked about her book, the process of writing it, main findings and concluded with a list of book recommendations tackling inequality. Megan's book recommendations: Accidental Feminism by Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen The People′s Hotel by Katherine Sobering The Opportunity Trap by Pallavi Banerjee Making Motherhood Work by Caitlyn Collins

On the well woman show this month, I interview Dr. Caitlyn Collins, Caitlyn Collins is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. She studies gender inequality in the workplace and family life. Her award-winning book, Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving (Princeton University Press, 2019), is a cross-national interview study of 135 working mothers in Sweden, Germany, Italy, and the United States. Recently, Collins is engaged in collaborative research to probe how the COVID-19 pandemic shapes mothers' employment. She is interviewed often in national media, and she has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Washington Post, and Slate. Dr. Collins is a featured speaker for WFRN Conference in June. Founded in 1997, The Work and Family Researchers Network, or WFRN, is an international organization dedicated to advancing the impact of work-family scholarship on lives, practice and policy. Nearly 2500 researchers have joined the WFRN as members. The WFRN is hosting its next conference June 23-25, 2022 in New York City. Information about joining the WFRN and its upcoming conference can be found at http://wfrn.org/ (WFRN.ORG). The Well Woman Show is a media partner for WFRN. I'll be interviewing several WFRN scholars leading up to the June conference. Find them at http://npr.org/ (NPR.org). On the show we'll discuss: Why The U.S. has the weakest social policies to support families of any western industrialized country. How the U.S. society has long told mothers that their work-family conflict is their fault and their problem to solve. And how we can find better solutions that meet the needs of all families in the United States, regardless of income, education, race, or marital or immigration status. The book Dr. Collins recommended is: https://bookshop.org/books/parent-nation-unlocking-every-child-s-potential-fulfilling-society-s-promise/9780593185605 (Parent Nation: Unlocking Every Child's Potential, Fulfilling Society's Promise a book by Dana Suskind and Lydia Denworth) You can find notes from today's show at http://wellwomanlife.com/286show (wellwomanlife.com/286show). The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from The Well Woman Academy™ at http://wellwomanlife.com/academy (wellwomanlife.com/academy). Join us in the Academy for community, mindfulness practices and practical support to live your Well Woman Life.

One of our dearest clients wrote in an email, “I have this feeling like there isn't enough of me as a mama, wife, daughter, sister, friend, employee, community member. Not enough time, not enough for all the needs. It feels like a scarcity mindset that is difficult to break out of.” When sociologist Caitlyn Collins interviewed working women in the U.S. she heard a similar refrain. In this episode of The Behaviorist, join Sarah as she interviews Ashlinn, Vanessa, and Carm to discuss the perils of Mom Guilt, the important ways we can more fully understand it as a mindset and concrete behaviors to address it. You can follow Work Wisdom On LinkedIn and Instagram, at @workwisdom, and learn more at our website at https://www.workwisdomllc.com.

Dr. Caitlyn Collins is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research examines social inequality and gender inequality in the workplace and in family life. Dr. Collins conducted an interview study of 135 working mothers in Sweden, Germany, Italy, and the United States. These four countries offer distinct policy approaches to reconciling work-family conflict. She examined how different ideals of gender, motherhood, and employment are embedded in these policies, and how they shape the daily lives of working mothers in these countries. Dr. Collins is the author of the book based on this research called Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving.

Washington University sociologist Caitlyn Collins discusses the troubling trend of mothers dropping out of the workforce during the pandemic -- and how the U.S. lags behind other countries in supporting parents.

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If you have ever wondered why motherhood in the US is so difficult, you don’t want to miss this conversation with Caitlyn Collins, Assistant Professor of Sociology a Washington University and author of Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving. In her book, Caitlyn dives into the ways public policy shapes the lives of mothers in the USA, Germany, Italy and Sweden. By examining the different policies in each country, and through detailed interviews with 135 women, the book shows how public policy decisions deeply influence culture and drastically shapes the lives of parents. This conversation is likely to leave you shocked, and, hopefully inspired by the possibility to reimagine options for supporting mothers and children with benefits such as paid parental leave and universal affordable, high quality childcare. As Caitlyn says, instead of blaming themselves, mothers in the US should consider that the current system isn’t working. Follow us @iwhjpodcast and please share this episode with a friend.

After six months of this pandemic, we have data showing women are working longer hours and taking on a disproportionate amount of the extra work at home. For those womens’ careers, sociology professor Caitlyn Collins says it can mean death by a thousand cuts. On today’s show, we’ll talk with Collins about women dropping out of the workforce, the ripple effects that could have years down the line and what we can do about it now.

After six months of this pandemic, we have data showing women are working longer hours and taking on a disproportionate amount of the extra work at home. For those womens’ careers, sociology professor Caitlyn Collins says it can mean death by a thousand cuts. On today’s show, we’ll talk with Collins about women dropping out of the workforce, the ripple effects that could have years down the line and what we can do about it now.

Today I discuss 3 fantastic new books on work, families, and social change - C19-21. 'Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving', by Caitlyn Collins https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691178851/making-motherhood-work 'Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood', by Helen McCarthy www.bloomsbury.com/uk/double-lives-9781408870761/ 'Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy' by Emma Griffin. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300230062/bread-winner Also mentioned: 'Women's labour force participation in nineteenth‐century England and Wales' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ehr.12876 'The Quiet Revolution That Transformed Women’s Employment, Education, and Family' by Claudia Goldin https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/goldin/files/the_quiet_revolution_that_transformed_womens_employment_education_and_family.pdf 'Changes in the Labour Supply of Married Women' by Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn www.nber.org/papers/w11230.pdf 'From ‘MeToo’ to Boko Haram: A survey of levels and trends of gender inequality in the world' by Stephan Klasen https://www.nber.org/papers/w11230.pdf 'Women Forget That Men are the Masters : Gender Antagonism and Socio-economic Change in Kisii District, Kenya', by Margrethe Silberschmidt www.bookdepository.com/book/9789171064394

According to an article in Psychology Today, “Mothers are Drowning in Stress”, sociologist Caitlyn Collins performed a study “Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving” of working moms in 4 wealthy western countries and she found that the moms from the United States have it the worst in terms of feeling overwhelmed and generally tapped out. So, consistently she found that moms wanted to essentially combine working for paid employment while also being a mom in ways that didn’t distract from either their home or work lives too much. Now that’s the thing, it’s like your work life usually bleeds over into your home life and your home life can seep over into your work life. You are pulled in many directions and left feeling unaccomplished, but you have to stop and count your small victories. The four countries studied were East Berlin, Sweden, United States, West Germany, and Italy. In Sweden, she found the highest support for families, equal responsibility in child rearing and breadwinning, the moms still feel pressure of motherhood still but not necessarily overwhelming.In East Berlin, they have universal employment for both women and men, and the women do not feel conflict so to speak over working. They don’t really focus heavily on a “career”.While in West Germany and Italy, the article said that these women, with strong histories in maternalism, the women feel that a career can conflict with motherhood so seeking that lifestyle of working is kinda frowned upon. US moms have it the worst!!!!!! The study found that US moms-Have a lack of supportCrushing guiltWork-family conflict (insert story about breast pumping at work)The conflicts moms experience are considered “personal problems” It’s thought that, according to the study, that “ (13) The cultural ideal of motherhood is an all-absorbing devotion to her children as the source of her life’s meaning, creativity, and fulfillment. Children are seen as fragile and only properly cared for by loving mothers. Fathers can’t help much, because they are thought to lack the right nurturing skills. (14)”Celebrate the small victories. References: Article: Dr. Alison Escalante, Pediatrician and Writerhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shouldstorm/201903/mothers-are-drowning-in-stressCollins, Caitlyn. (2019) Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Music Credit: Mitchell Huntley, Power of Love, “Freestyle".Support the show (https://www.facebook.com/TwoTenPodcastAC/)

In this episode, the WorkLife HUB podcast sits down with Caitlyn Collins, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, author of Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving. Listen in as Agnes and Caitlyn speak about the notion of work-life justice, gender inequality at the workplace and in family life, and the findings of a cross-national research study interviewing 135 working women.

In this episode, Laura sits down with Maris Young of Young Honest Mother to REAL TALK all things life, motherhood, entrepreneurship, and communal living. Maris is a wife and mother who craves authentic connection. She created Young Honest Mother to bear the torch for conversations surrounding all things marriage, motherhood and modern home economics. In all honesty. Unnerved by the unspoken, Maris offers a welcoming space for people to share what their experiences have really been like. As well as sharing thought-provoking blog posts about meaningful topics, Maris also hosts Young Honest Mother: The Podcast to feature heart-to-heart conversations with everyday women who are courageous enough to share their own stories. She also chats with industry truth-tellers far and wide who aren't afraid to tell it like it is. Maris sets out to inspire and empower others to start honest dialogues in their own communities. Links and Such: Find Maris on Instagram: @younghonestmother Young Honest Motherhood website Young Honest Motherhood Podcast The Art of Gathering by Pria Parker Episode 104: Caitlyn Collins on the revolution needed to Make Motherhood Work The Montessori Toddler @the.holistic.psychologist Maris' post: Re-parenting my inner two-year-old Get 15% off Beekeeper's Naturals products with code: modernmamas Get 15% off Four Sigmatic products with code: modernmamas Get 20% off COMRAD Compression Socks with code: modern mamas Connect with us: Modern Mamas – @modernmamaspodcast Laura – @laura.radicalroots Jess – @jess.holdthespace Laura's website – http://myradicalroots.com/ Jess' website (coming soon) – https://www.jessgaertner.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-modern-mamas-podcast/support

New and expecting mothers are frequently told that their lives will change once their baby arrives. They don't always hear how, especially when it comes to their careers. Caitlyn Collins is a sociologist at Washington University in St. Louis. She conducted interviews with mothers around the world and found American moms feel far more stressed out than women in Italy, Germany and Sweden. Collins spoke with On Second Thought host Virginia Prescott about her research.

Caitlyn Collins is a sociologist and author of " Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving ." Collins looks into “Work/Family Justice” for parents, especially as more and more women become the breadwinners of their families. Her studies show that mothers in the United States are the most stressed of comparable western cultures and speak more about not having enough time to be with their children. Unlike many European countries, such as Sweden, the United States does not have a national support system for mothers. Collins preveiws her research into societal trends and policy with On Second Thought before her speech at the University of Georgia .

We kick off the fall with one of several episodes coming up that explores what it will take to make modern-day parenthood more sustainable and less overwhelming. We'll be looking at the social and economic factors that make caring for a family feel like such a herculean effort. Caitlyn Collins says the work-life conflict experienced by parents — especially moms — should be considered a national crisis. An assistant professor at Washington University, Dr. Collins has done some groundbreaking research on this topic, interviewing working middle class mothers in Sweden, Germany, Italy and the United States over five years. She's compiled this in a compelling book called Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving. In it she makes the case that nothing short of a revolution in both public policy and — critically — cultural believes, with bring about the changes that families need both in the United States and in Canada. Show Notes Love our work? Please check out our Patreon Campaign! Become a patron of the show for as little as $1 per month

Poor rural Indians come to expect and demand more of the state if they observe other people like them successfully mobilising for better services and public goods. Through quantitative and qualitative research in Rajasthan, Dr Gabi Kruks-Wisner shows feedback loops in observations, expectations, and claims-making. Read more about her work: https://krukswisner.wordpress.com/ Buy the book: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/comparative-politics/claiming-state-active-citizenship-and-social-welfare-rural-india?format=PB&isbn=9781316649008#xFBr4rHJoOX5Yzxr.97 This chimes with "Fragmented Democracy" by Jamila Michener: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/fragmented-democracy/9A69DF1567190EF38883D4766EBC0AAC And "Forbearance as Redistribution" by Alisha Holland: http://alishaholland.com/book/ And "Making Motherhood Work" by Caitlyn Collins: https://press.princeton.edu/titles/13324.html All these new books demonstrate feedback loops, in people's observations, expectations, and demands of the state.

Where in the world do working moms have it best? In her new book, Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving (Princeton University Press, 2019), Caitlyn Collins explores how women balance motherhood and work across the globe. Using interviews with middle class working mothers in Sweden, East and Western Germany, Italy, and the United States, Collins digs deep into how policies and cultural values shape these women's lives. This book will be of interest to any working parent and would be a great addition to any sociology of family or sociology of work course. Sarah E. Patterson is a postdoc at the University of Western Ontario. You can tweet her at @spattersearch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where in the world do working moms have it best? In her new book, Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving (Princeton University Press, 2019), Caitlyn Collins explores how women balance motherhood and work across the globe. Using interviews with middle class working mothers in Sweden, East and Western Germany, Italy, and the United States, Collins digs deep into how policies and cultural values shape these women’s lives. This book will be of interest to any working parent and would be a great addition to any sociology of family or sociology of work course. Sarah E. Patterson is a postdoc at the University of Western Ontario. You can tweet her at @spattersearch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where in the world do working moms have it best? In her new book, Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving (Princeton University Press, 2019), Caitlyn Collins explores how women balance motherhood and work across the globe. Using interviews with middle class working mothers in Sweden, East and Western Germany, Italy, and the United States, Collins digs deep into how policies and cultural values shape these women’s lives. This book will be of interest to any working parent and would be a great addition to any sociology of family or sociology of work course. Sarah E. Patterson is a postdoc at the University of Western Ontario. You can tweet her at @spattersearch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where in the world do working moms have it best? In her new book, Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving (Princeton University Press, 2019), Caitlyn Collins explores how women balance motherhood and work across the globe. Using interviews with middle class working mothers in Sweden, East and Western Germany, Italy, and the United States, Collins digs deep into how policies and cultural values shape these women’s lives. This book will be of interest to any working parent and would be a great addition to any sociology of family or sociology of work course. Sarah E. Patterson is a postdoc at the University of Western Ontario. You can tweet her at @spattersearch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where in the world do working moms have it best? In her new book, Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving (Princeton University Press, 2019), Caitlyn Collins explores how women balance motherhood and work across the globe. Using interviews with middle class working mothers in Sweden, East and Western Germany, Italy, and the United States, Collins digs deep into how policies and cultural values shape these women’s lives. This book will be of interest to any working parent and would be a great addition to any sociology of family or sociology of work course. Sarah E. Patterson is a postdoc at the University of Western Ontario. You can tweet her at @spattersearch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where in the world do working moms have it best? In her new book, Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving (Princeton University Press, 2019), Caitlyn Collins explores how women balance motherhood and work across the globe. Using interviews with middle class working mothers in Sweden, East and...

Where in the world do working moms have it best? In her new book, Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving (Princeton University Press, 2019), Caitlyn Collins explores how women balance motherhood and work across the globe. Using interviews with middle class working mothers in Sweden, East and Western Germany, Italy, and the United States, Collins digs deep into how policies and cultural values shape these women’s lives. This book will be of interest to any working parent and would be a great addition to any sociology of family or sociology of work course. Sarah E. Patterson is a postdoc at the University of Western Ontario. You can tweet her at @spattersearch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where in the world do working moms have it best? In her new book, Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving (Princeton University Press, 2019), Caitlyn Collins explores how women balance motherhood and work across the globe. Using interviews with middle class working mothers in Sweden, East and Western Germany, Italy, and the United States, Collins digs deep into how policies and cultural values shape these women’s lives. This book will be of interest to any working parent and would be a great addition to any sociology of family or sociology of work course. Sarah E. Patterson is a postdoc at the University of Western Ontario. You can tweet her at @spattersearch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caitlyn Collins is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis and author of Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving. Her book is a cross-national interview study of 135 working mothers in Sweden, Germany, Italy, and the United States. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and has been featured in the popular press including The Atlantic, Forbes, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. She is a 2019 Nancy Weiss Malkiel Scholar, a 2018 Work and Family Researchers Network Early Career Fellow, and a contributor for The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Slate.In this episode Stew and Caitlyn discuss the cross-national differences Caitlyn observed in her research on working mothers in four countries. It was only the American women who blamed themselves for the stresses and strains of life as a working mother. In the other nations, women understood there were external constraints, out of their immediate control, that affected the stress they feel from conflict between work and the rest of their lives. And they expected the community, the society, the government to collectively invest in the essential tasks of caring for rearing the future generation of tax payers and employees. They grasped that this is not a private, family responsibility, but a shared one. Apart from voting to create change in our social policy, which of course is essential, Caitlyn offers other ideas for how we Americans can orchestrate ways of being exposed to people different from ourselves, outside of our own immediate community, so we can better understand and feel part of the commonweal and compassionately invest in all aspects of our society, especially our children. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, Laura sits down for a chat with Caitlyn Collins, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. We deep dive into her research examining the production and consequences of social inequality in the US. There were tears, goosebumps, anger, and so so much enlightenment. This is a conversation EVERYONE should hear, eliciting emotions that will create change. Don't miss it, friends! And please spread the word. Caitlyn is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research examines the production and consequences of social inequality. Caitlyn uses qualitative methods to understand gender inequality in the workplace and in family life. Her current project is a cross-national interview study of 135 working mothers in Sweden, Germany, Italy, and the United States. These four countries offer distinct policy approaches to reconciling work-family conflict. She examines how different ideals of gender, motherhood, and employment are embedded in these policies, and how they shape the daily lives of working mothers in these countries. Her book based on this research called Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving was recently published by Princeton University Press. Caitlyn is a 2019 Nancy Weiss Malkiel Scholar (Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation) and a 2018 Work and Family Researchers Network Early Career Fellow. She earned her PhD in Sociology from The University of Texas at Austin and her BA in Sociology from Whitman College. Her research is supported by organizations including the National Science Foundation, American Association of University Women, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Swedish Council of America. Links and Such: Caitlyn's website: https://caitlyncollins.com/ Find Caitlyn on twitter: @caitymcollins Caitlyn's op-ed in the New York Times: The Real Mommy War is Against the State Find Caitlyn's book HERE Find her Slate Photo Essay: Americans Love Seeing Swedish Dads Out With Their Kids (This is a Problem) HERE Connect with us: Modern Mamas – @modernmamaspodcast Laura – @laura.radicalroots Jess – @jess.holdthespace Laura's website – http://myradicalroots.com/ Jess' website – https://www.holdthespacewellness.com/ Support the podcast by shopping our favorite products! 15% off Beekeeper's Naturals products with code: modernmamas 15% off Four Sigmatic mushroom elixirs with code: modernmamas --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-modern-mamas-podcast/support

Caitlyn Collins, a sociologist at Washington University in St. Louis, conducted interviews with mothers in four countries -- the United States, Italy, Germany, and Sweden -- who have jobs outside the home to better understand the pressures they felt. She found that American moms were by far the most stressed, primarily because of the lack of parental benefits offered by their employers and the government. In Europe, women told Collins they had more help, but at times cultural norms around their personal and professional roles had yet to catch up. Collins thinks companies can work to improve the situation but argues that the real solution is carefully designed government interventions that will help families at all income levels. She’s the author of the book “Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving.”

Host Don Marsh talks with Caitlyn Collins, author of "Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving." The newly released book looks at working mothers' daily lives and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve them.  

Join us this Wednesday as we talk with Javier Auyero, the editor of Invisible in Austin: Life and Labor in an American City and co-author, Caitlyn Collins.