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How long does it take to read The Price of Motherhood?

Ann Crittenden

The Price of Motherhood by Ann Crittenden takes about 6 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 6 hours 3 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2001. 330 pages, about 90,750 words.

13 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 10 hours 5 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 3 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 47 minutes

The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"The price of motherhood is everywhere apparent. College-educated women pay a "mommy tax" of more than a million dollars in lost income when they have a child. Family law deprives mothers of financial equality in marriage. Most child care is excluded from the gross domestic product, at-home mothers are not counted in the labor force, and the social safety net simply leaves them out. With passion and clarity, Crittenden dismantles the principal argument for the status quo: that it's a woman's "choice." She demonstrates, on the contrary, that if mothers had more resources and respect, everyone - including children - would be better off." "The Price of Motherhood reveals the glaring disparity between the value created by mothers' work and the reward women receive for carrying out society's most important job."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects: Mothers, Economic aspects of Motherhood, Motherhood, Economic conditions, Social conditions, Kind

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