Divided Generation: Post-revolutionary Girl Baby Boomers

This chapter is about the divided baby boomers’ generation caused by the intersection of biological and historical generations, covering both their girlhood and young motherhood. Besides socio-economic factors, it stresses ‘the number of siblings’ and ‘birth order’ as important factors shaping the women’s labour and leisure lives. It also examines how divided generation phenomenon affects their childcare arrangements. It starts with a brief introduction of the ideological, political and demographic environment in which they grew up, pointing out how they are a divided generation composed of an ‘older sisters’ group and a ‘younger sisters group’, before proceeding to an examination of the labour and leisure lives of each of them.