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Grandmothers at Work - Juggling Families and Jobs (Paperback)
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Grandmothers at Work - Juggling Families and Jobs (Paperback)
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Winner of the 2014 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award
presented by the Gerontological Society of America Young working
mothers are not the only ones who are struggling to balance family
life and careers. Many middle-aged American women face this dilemma
as they provide routine childcare for their grandchildren while
pursuing careers and trying to make ends meet. Employment among
middle-aged women is at an all-time high. In the same way that
women who reduce employment hours when raising their young children
experience reductions in salary, savings, and public and private
pensions, the mothers of those same women, as grandmothers, are
rearranging hours to take care of their grandchildren, experiencing
additional loss of salary and reduced old age pension accumulation.
Madonna Harrington Meyer's Grandmothers at Work, based primarily on
48 in-depth interviews conducted in 2009-2012 with grandmothers who
juggle working and minding their grandchildren, explores the
strategies of, and impacts on, working grandmothers. While all of
the grandmothers in Harrington Meyer's book are pleased to spend
time with their grandchildren, many are readjusting work schedules,
using vacation and sick leave time, gutting retirement accounts,
and postponing retirement to care for grandchildren. Some simply
want to do this; others do it in part because they have more
security and flexibility on the job than their daughters do at
their relatively new jobs. Many are sequential grandmothers, caring
for one grandchild after the other as they are born, in very
intensive forms of grandmothering. Some also report that they are
putting off retirement out of economic necessity, in part due to
the amount of financial help they are providing their
grandchildren. Finally, some are also caring for their frail older
parents or ailing spouses just as intensively. Most expect to
continue feeling the pinch of paid and unpaid work for many years
before their retirement. Grandmothers at Work provides a unique
perspective on a phenomenon faced by millions of women in America
today.
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