Maternal self-conception and mental wellbeing during the first wave of the covid-19 pandemic. a qualitative interview study through the lens of “intensive mothering” and “ideal worker” ideology

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Last, the intensive mothering norms ideologically separate mothers from Frontiers in Global Women`s Health continuing or taking paid professional work. Recent findings suggest that the ideal worker ideology is applied to and applied by working mothers in terms of career expectations and unwritten penalties, e_g, when women return part-time to work after their parental leave. More recent research suggests that women frame mothering and their "working identity" in heterogeneous ways (e_g, by delegating "intensive mothering" tasks or indicating that working leads to being "better" mothers), yet, constantly referring to ideals of "intensive . . .

 



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