Abstract
In the last two centuries only a few people would contest that Dutch mothers should raise their children. Until the end of the nineteenth century this task often went together with women’s labour. From that point until the 1960s there was a special period in Dutch history, with the great majority of mothers devoting themselves full-time to motherhood and only a very small minority working outside the home. This deviation from a European pattern – almost a Dutch Sonderweg in the first half of the twentieth century – changed into another deviation from the 1970s. Then more and more Dutch mothers started to work outside the home, eventually even in greater numbers than in other European countries, but with the majority of mothers preferring part-time work. As a result, it became a matter of course for Dutch mothers to combine working outside the home with raising their own children.
Translated title of the contribution | Women and Child Rearing since the Late Nineteenth Century:: The Speciality of the Dutch Case |
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Original language | Dutch |
Pages (from-to) | 70-91 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review |
Volume | 130 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 17-Jun-2015 |