Communication and the work-life balancing act : intersections across identities, genders, and cultures

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

Communication and the Work-Life Balancing Act: Intersections across Identities, Genders, and Cultures offers scholarly research related to work-life balance in today's environment, with a particular focus on the fields of communication and gender studies. The chapters examine the choices, chall...

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Other Authors: Fish Hatfield, Elizabeth (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
Series:Communicating gender.
Subjects:
Work-life balance.
Work and family.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Work and family
Work-life balance
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Patrice Buzzanell
  • Introduction / Elizabeth Fish Hatfield
  • I. Crafting the Modern Ideal Worker
  • 1. The ideal teleworker: A critique of ideal-worker constructions in a nonstandard work environment / Millie A. Harrison
  • 2. What work-life balance? Ohio welfare to work program managers' focus on paid work / Tiffany Taylor, Katrina Bloch, and Brianna Turgeon
  • 3. Putting your career first: Forbes' guilt-free working mom / Samantha Szczur
  • II. Having It All in a Culture of Competing Demands
  • 4. Freedom with limits: Communication, work-life balance and the "mompreneur" / Cara Jacocks
  • 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
  • 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
  • 7. It's about priorities: Adaptation strategies of dual military couples / David G. Smith
  • III. Gender Roles at Home in a Dual Earner Society
  • 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
  • 9. Work-family balance and immigrant Sub-Saharan women in the United States / Gladys Muasya
  • 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
  • IV. Defining Work-Life Balance Beyond Mothers
  • 11. Social stigma, child-free identities, and work-life balance / Jessica M. Rick and Rebecca J. Meisenbach
  • 12. Tracing the Daddy Wars: The emergence of dad culture and the prioritization of work-life balance / Elizabeth Fish Hatfield and Katherine Hampsten
  • 13. Paternity leave, identity and fatherhood / Scott Sellnow-Richmond and Loraleigh Keashley.

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