The basic premise of this article is that despite the many representations mothers in history art, maternal image has almost invariably been presented status object, i.e., a reflection value system, interests, and perspective patriarchal culture, not mother herself. This study examines construction ideal western, particularly Israeli, suggests turning point over past twenty years as contemporar...

We analyze the wage effects of employment breaks of women entering motherhood using a novel within-firm matching approach where mothers’ wages upon return to the job are compared with those of their female colleagues. We investigate three different matching procedures: (1) exact matching on individual characteristics two years before birth, (2) propensity score matching and (3) a combined proce...

In this comment, we offer a nontechnical discussion of conventional (conditional) multivariate quantile regression, with an emphasis on the appropriate interpretation of results. We discuss its distinction from unconditional quantile regression, an analytic method that can be used to estimate varying associations between predictors and outcome at different points of the outcome distribution. We...

Introduction -., Traditional concepts and values have undergone dramatic upheaval consequent to advancement in biomedical technology. As newer technologies replace existing ones, they throw open a host of ethical questions. We need to reflect on many issues if ethics in biomedical sciences is to have any meaning at all. One such issue that has attracted recent attention and is surrounded by con...

The proportion of adult women without children in the United States has increased in recent years and there are multiple reasons women do not have children. Past research concerning the well-being of women relative to their motherhood status does not recognize the great diversity among women without children. I attempt to fill that gap by classifying women based on the presence or absence of ch...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine mothers’ social media accounts that focus on children’s fashion. authors probed fashion photo practices as representations the extended self and kind childhood produced by accounts. They also investigated perceptions privacy when engaging in sharenting – sharing information about children or parenting online. Design/methodology/approach study base...

It is unfortunate that Roddis presents Lind as a personage and tells us so little of the person, or rather of the personality, with the drives and motivations which made for such a wide spectrum of researches and activities. But despite the rather too academic and impersonal handling, the story of James Lind offers interesting and profitable reading.

In Iran, motherhood continues to be considered an important and essential part of women’s social life. However, nonmotherhood is gaining momentum as Iranian women increasingly choose childfree. This study explores perceptions using the content a Persian-language discussion mini-blogging forum called Ninisite. Ninisite one largest interactive digital spaces dedicated topics such family, motherho...

This article explores mothers’ narratives of ‘prepping’ behaviours. Prepping involves the management stockpiled household items in anticipation marketplace disruption. In this article, we use anticipated food shortages following UK’s exit from EU (‘Brexit’) as our context. Drawing on interview data, highlight how mothers embed prepping into their ongoing pursuit intensive motherhood, bound high...