@article{1479314,
      recid = {1479314},
      author = {Deutsch, Francine M., },
      title = {Halving It All : How Equally Shared Parenting Works /},
      pages = {1 online resource (336 p.)},
      abstract = {The best way to have it all--both a full family life and a  career--is to halve it all. That's the message of Francine  Deutsch's refreshing and humane book, based on extensive  interviews with a wide range of couples. Deutsch casts a  skeptical eye on the grim story of inequality that has been  told since women found themselves working a second shift at  home. She brings good news: equality based on shared  parenting is possible, and it is emerging all around us.  Some white-collar fathers achieve as well as talk about  equality, and some blue-collar parents work alternate  shifts to ensure that one parent can always be with the  children. Using vivid "ations from her interviews, Deutsch  tells the story of couples who share parenting equally, and  some who don't. The differences between the groups are not  in politics, education, or class, but in the way they  negotiate the large and small issues--from whose paid job  is "important" to who applies the sunscreen. With the  majority of mothers in the workforce, parents today have to  find ways of sharing the work at home. Rigid ideas of "good  mothers" and "good fathers," Deutsch argues, can be  transformed into a more flexible reality: the good  parent.Halving It All takes the discussion beyond shrill  ideological arguments about working mothers and absent  fathers. Deutsch shows how, with the best of intentions,  people perpetuate inequalities and injustices on the home  front, but also, and more important, how they can devise  more equal arrangements, out of explicit principles, or  simply out of fairness and love.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479314},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674272040},
}