Motherhood

A mother is the female parent of a child. Mothers are women who inhabit or perform the role of bearing some relation to their children, who may or may not be their biological offspring. Thus, dependent on the context, women can be considered mothers by virtue of having given birth, by raising their child(ren), supplying their ovum for fertilisation, or some combination thereof. Such conditions provide a way of delineating the concept of motherhood, or the state of being a mother. Women who meet the third and first categories usually fall under the terms 'birth mother' or 'biological mother', regardless …

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BOU: Boulder Books · 20 April 2024 English

Marjorie Doyle grew up in a life of privilege in St. John’s, Newfoundland’s capital city. Her father, a middle-aged prosperous businessman, married Mary Foley, a young woman who had escaped …

and carrying the wisdom of marriage and young motherhood. They chose a church where my mother had a friend


UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 7 April 2024 English

“Inspiring, healing, and future-facing, this long overdue book gives us valuable new insights into the histories and identities of Métis people.”

back against dominating societal narratives of motherhood, gender identity, and perceptions that Métis


CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 27 March 2024 English

The report follows the publication of Safe at Work, Unsafe at Home: COVID-19 and Temporary Foreign Workers in Prince Edward Island in 2021 and Unfree Labour: COVID-19 and Migrant Workers …

shapes young women's experiences of pregnancy, motherhood, and marriage. SSM-Qualitative Research in Health


Tamarack - An Institute for Community Engagement · 8 March 2024 French

jeunes de presque toutes les communautés ont à la fois un soutien émotionnel et des mesures déclaré avoir du mal à accéder à la nourriture, au Lorsque les jeunes font …

problèmes, l’équipe de jeunes a fourni aux Indigenous Motherhood des discussions autour d’un feu de camp et une


Childcare Resource and Research Unit · 2 March 2024 English

For the first time, the assessment goes beyond the laws on the books—de jure—to examine the frameworks supporting implementation of the law and to gauge experts’ opinions on the outcome …

Andersen, Signe Hald. 2018. “Paternity Leave and the Motherhood Penalty: New Causal Evidence.” Journal of Marriage Ilona Kwiecień, and Ewa Poprawska. 2020. “The Motherhood Pension Gap in a Defined Contribution Pension


CBCN: Canadian Breast Cancer Network · 27 February 2024 English

CBCN is Canada?s leading patient-directed breast cancer health charity that voices the views and concerns of breast cancer patients through the promotion of information sharing, education, and advocacy activities. [...] …

Patient, Also a Parent focuses on experiences of motherhood and raising a family while also undergoing a


CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 26 February 2024 English

compared to the private sector. [...] How the public sector is fighting income inequality 18 The motherhood penalty and the fatherhood premium one of The factors in the gender wage gap is the presence of

The public sector and the gender pay gap 19 The motherhood penalty and the fatherhood premium 21 The public the presence of children. Women often suffer a motherhood penalty: their pay drops when they have children fatherhood premium. There is some evidence of a motherhood penalty in the private sector, but the fatherhood public sector is fighting income inequality 18 The motherhood penalty and the fatherhood premium one of The trends that often involve gender and children: the motherhood penalty and the fatherhood premium. Briefly,


CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 26 February 2024 French

17 Centre canadien de politiques alternatives Le secteur public et l’écart de rémunération entre les hommes et les femmes au vu Des deux types possibles de discrimination dans le tableau …

(2018), « Segregation across Workplaces and the Motherhood Wage Gap: Why Do Mothers Work in Low-Wage Establishments


CHRC: Canadian Human Rights Commission · 22 February 2024 English

In considering the wisdom and feasibility of adding this ground to the Canadian Human Rights Act, it is necessary to analyze the federal, provincial, and international legal landscape in this …

(T.C.C.), finding that although poor, single motherhood was a personal characteristic that could be considered combined with characteristics such as single motherhood and race, occupied the social condition of “public well-established analogous grounds at play, such as single motherhood. For instance, in Affordable Energy Coalition


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 February 2024 English

uncommon, the losses that go without memorial or acknowledgment. It is a story about women, about motherhood, and the ways middle-aged women are underestimated, even by themselves.


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