Friday, April 18, 2008

Motherhood vs. Career

MSNBC.com has an interesting article on Spain's (pregnant) defense minister.

I apologize for all of the lame link-only posts, but that's all I've got to give these days :)

2 comments:

M said...

You know, I really hope that at some point we're asking these sorts of questions about new fathers. For example, if the Spanish Defense Minister was a man and his wife was expecting a baby, would he be allowed to take 16 weeks paternity leave? We really need to stop thinking about parenthood and careers in such limited ways.

solon said...

There is an excellent article on this topic:

Erika Kirby and Kathleen Krone, "The policy exists but you can't really use it": communication and the structuration of work-family policies" Communication Studies 30.1 (2002): 50 - 77.

If you look up Communication Studies through the library, you should find the journal and then a link to the article.

If you are interested in this topic, I highly suggest that you read this.