Communication and the Work-Life Balancing Act

Intersections across Identities, Genders, and Cultures
Herausgeber: Hatfield, Elizabeth Fish

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection analyzes how communication and gender influence work-life balance decisions for men and women in today’s culture. Touching on key topics in work-life balance research, contributors explore case studies that expose the challenges and progress influencing families today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781498534178
• ISBN-10: 1498534171
• Artikelnr.: 55528094

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Fish Hatfield is assistant professor at the University of Houston - Downtown.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword
Patrice Buzzanell
Introduction
Elizabeth Fish Hatfield
Crafting the Modern Ideal Worker
Chapter 1
The ideal teleworker: A critique of ideal-worker constructions in a
nonstandard work environment
Millie A. Harrison
Chapter 2
What work-life balance? Ohio welfare to work program managers' focus on
paid work
Tiffany Taylor, Katrina Bloch, and Brianna Turgeon
Chapter 3
Putting your career first: Forbes' guilt-free working mom
Samantha Szczur
Having It All in a Culture of Competing Demands
Chapter 4
Freedom with limits: Communication, work-life balance and the "mompreneur"
Cara Jacocks
Chapter 5
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
Chapter 6
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 Jantzer
Chapter 7
It's about priorities: Adaptation strategies of dual military couples
David G. Smith
Gender Roles at Home in a Dual Earner Society
Chapter 8
"There's a thousand invisible things I do around here": Examining mothers'
roles in the gendered division of labor on sitcoms
Elizabeth Fish Hatfield
Chapter 9
Work-family balance and immigrant Sub-Saharan women in the United States
Gladys Muasya
Chapter 10
Uncovering pathways to support for family relocation: The gendered
influence of the divisions of housework and perceptions of fairness
Shannon N. Davis, Julia Anderson, and Shannon K. Jacobsen
Defining Work-Life Balance Beyond Mothers
Chapter 11
Social stigma, child-free identities, and work-life balance
Jessica M. Rick and Rebecca J. Meisenbach
Chapter 12
Tracing the Daddy Wars: The emergence of dad culture and the prioritization
of work-life balance
Elizabeth Fish Hatfield and Katherine Hampsten
Chapter 13
Paternity leave, identity and fatherhood
Scott Sellnow-Richmond and Loraleigh Keashley
About the Editor and Contributors