Unequal Before Birth - The Maternity Leave Experiences of Low Income Mothers of Color in

This book offers insight into women''s different experiences when giving birth and taking maternity leave in the United States. By offering an intersectionalities perspective grounded in the history and socially constructed understandings of race, class, and gender, this book describes, explains, and can help to predict particular women''s likelihood of taking maternity leave and can contribute to the consequence of leave-taking for women''s health and employment in the short- and long-term.>

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• Authors: Ja'Nya Jenoch
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 05.03.2026
• EAN: 9781666908473
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-847-3
• No. of pages: 1
• Series: Contemporary Perspectives on Social Inequalities in the United States
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Women's health, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Medical Sociology, Relating to African American / Black American people, HEALTH & FITNESS / African American & Black