Intensive Mothering and the Unequal School-Search Burden (Sociology of Education 2022)

Expanded school-choice policies have weakened the traditional link between residence and school assignment. These policies have created new school options and new labor for families to manage and divide. Drawing on interviews with 90 mothers and 12 fathers of elementary-age children, I demonstrate that mothers across class, racial, and ethnic backgrounds absorb the labor of school decision-making.

Read more: Brown, B. A. (2022). Intensive mothering and the unequal school-search burden. Sociology of Education, 95(1), 3-22.