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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792558603321

Titolo

Communication and the work-life balancing act : intersections across identities, genders, and cultures / / edited by Elizabeth Fish Hatfield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-4985-3416-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Communicating Gender

Disciplina

650.1

Soggetti

Work-life balance

Work and family

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Elizabeth Fish Hatfield -- The ideal teleworker : a critique of ideal-worker constructions in a nonstandard work environment / Millie A. Harrison -- What work-life balance? : Ohio welfare to work program managers' focus on paid work / Brianna Turgeon, Tiffany Taylor, and Katrina Bloch -- Putting your career first : Forbes' guilt-free working mom / Samantha Szczur -- Freedom with limits : communication, work-life balance and the "mompreneur" / Cara Jacocks -- Opting (back) in to paid work : a capitalist, gendered, classed, careerist analysis / Erika L. Kirby with Timothy Kuhn, M. Chad McBride, George F. (Guy) McHendry, Jr., Rebecca J. Meisenbach, Robyn V. Remke, and Stacey M. B. Wieland -- Innovative career-life initiatives for women faculty in stem : a content analysis of funded NSf Advance Stem Institutional Transformation proposals / Elizabeth Tolman and Amanda Macht Jantzen -- It's about priorities : adaptation strategies of dual military couples / David G. Smith -- Gender roles at home in a dual earner society -- "There's a thousand invisible things I do around here" : examining mothers' roles in the gendered division of labor on sitcoms / Elizabeth Fish Hatfield -- Work-family balance and immigrant sub-Saharan women in the United States / Gladys Muasya -- Uncovering pathways to support for family relocation : the gendered influence of the divisions of housework and perceptions of fairness / Shannon N. Davis, Julie Anderson, and Shannon K. Jacobsen -- Defining



work-life balance beyond mothers -- Social stigma, child-free identities, and work-life balance / Jessica M. Rick and Rebecca J. Meisenbach -- Tracing the daddy wars : the emergence of dad culture and the prioritization of work-life balance / Elizabeth Fish Hatfield and Katherine Hampsten -- Paternity leave, identity and fatherhood / Scott Sellnow-Richmond and Loraleigh Keashley -- About the editor and contributors.