Dec 22, 2007

While being a mother who works outside the home is far from easy for many American women, many experts said the United States is in many ways more amenable to the practice than many other developed countries…”We also have a relatively high percentage of part-time jobs available,” said Ronald Rindfuss, a sociology professor at the University of North Carolina. “There’s also more shift work outside the normal nine-to-five, Monday-through-Friday schedule that enables parents to share child care.”

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