 2006 Mothers Day Campaign:
Mothers at Work
Reading List
 The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least Valued by Ann Crittenden, 2001. Economics journalist Crittenden details how prevailing practices and existing policies undermine the economic well-being of mothers.
 The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values
by Nancy Folbre, 2001. Economist Folbre describes the importance of family care in economic terms and envisions a free market that places equal social value on the production of material wealth and caregiving.
 Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women Are Worth
by Marilyn Waring, 1999. Also in an out-of-print edition called If Women Counted. Waring, an economist and legislator from New Zealand, has worked to get unpaid work included in the way nations track their economic activity. Surprisingly powerful.
 Without a Net: Middle-Class and Homeless (With Kids) in America by Michelle Kennedy, 2005.
This young mother of three left her irresponsible husband only to find that while a job as a waitress was not hard to find, an apartment was. All it took to go from married housewife to homeless single mom was a few bad decisions.
 Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity by Susan Sered and Rushika Fernandopulle, 2005. The authors interviewed more than 120 uninsured people and describe the impact of illness and financial problems on their lives.
The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke
by Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi, 2003. Warren, a business professor, interviewed Americans in bankruptcy, expecting to find irresponsible people with tons of credit card debt. She found people with credit card debt, but usually due to a job loss, a divorce, health problems, or some combination of these. She suggests that families live on one income, a problem for people living in parts of the country where housing is expensive.
The Mom Economy: The Mothers' Guide to Getting Family-Friendly Work
by Elizabeth Wilcox, 2003. Wilcox tells moms how to negotiate terms of employment that suit their lifestyles and allow them to meet their kid's needs. This practical volume helps moms get what they need most from the workplace-and find the work that works for them.
 The Naked Truth : A Working Woman's Manifesto on Business and What Really Matters
by Margaret A. Heffernan, 2004. It's a collection of stories from women about their experience in the
workplace with Ms Heffernan tying it all together along the way. She talks a
lot about motherhood (she has two kids herself) and about our desire to
bring our whole selves to work and how workplaces don't work for women and
mothers. At the same time, it's a very uplifting book about the paths many
women are forging for themselves and how women are changing the workplace in
a way that's better for workplaces too.
The End of Work as We Know It
by Nadine Mockler, 2002. A comprehensive guide to using flexible staffing at the professional level to attract the best and the brightest talent and create the most productive workforce possible.
Taxing Women
by Edward J. McCaffery, 1997. Legal scholar McCaffrey identifies a gender bias in the American tax system and details how it impacts women's lives at all levels of the economic scale.
 Unbending Gender: Why Families and Work Conflict and What To Do About It
by Joan Williams, 2000. Williams, a legal scholar, explores how and why typical workplace practices and cultural attitudes interfere with balancing paid work and family care.
We invite you to also skim our overall Recommended Reading list for books that consider additional aspects of mothers' issues and lived experience.
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