Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 5 · Licensed source edition
Challenges, experiences, and potential supports for East and Southeast Asian mothers in the workforce: a systematic review
Originally published 2024-07-25 · BMC Women's Health
BMC · DOI 10.1186/s12905-024-03255-0 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Maps policies, support, pressure, breastfeeding and health, explicitly noting that mothers’ priorities and the evidence for concrete interventions differ.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Independence
Does our return plan respond to this parent’s priorities rather than a regional stereotype?
Maps policies, support, pressure, breastfeeding and health, explicitly noting that mothers’ priorities and the evidence for concrete interventions differ.
Study context
36 studies from East and Southeast Asia: 20 quantitative, 15 qualitative and one intervention.
Age / stage: Adult working mothers, with emphasis on work re-entry.
Read with three questions
- Which five themes organized the evidence?
- How did pro-career and pro-family perspectives affect interpretation?
- Where did the review find too little evidence beyond breastfeeding or too few evaluated interventions?
Keep the limits in view
Regional and methodological heterogeneity limits generalization; a review dominated by observational and qualitative studies cannot establish the best intervention for every workplace.
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Peh Joo Ho; Tomiko Mei Ying Sim; Christine Kim Yan Loo; Jingmei Li (2024). Challenges, experiences, and potential supports for East and Southeast Asian mothers in the workforce: a systematic review BMC Women's Health. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-024-03255-0
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