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The Balance Gap - Working Mothers and the Limits of the Law (Hardcover)
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The Balance Gap - Working Mothers and the Limits of the Law (Hardcover)
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In recent decades, laws and workplace policies have emerged that
seek to address the "balance" between work and family. Millions of
women in the U.S. take some time off when they give birth or adopt
a child, making use of "family-friendly" laws and policies in order
to spend time recuperating and to initiate a bond with their
children. The Balance Gap traces the paths individual women take in
understanding and invoking work/life balance laws and policies.
Conducting in-depth interviews with women in two distinctive
workplace settings-public universities and the U.S. military-Sarah
Cote Hampson uncovers how women navigate the laws and the unspoken
cultures of their institutions. Activists and policymakers hope
that family-friendly law and policy changes will not only increase
women's participation in the workplace, but also help women
experience greater workplace equality. As Hampson shows, however,
these policies and women's abilities to understand and utilize them
have fallen short of fully alleviating the tensions that women
across the nation are still grappling with as they try to reconcile
their work and family responsibilities.
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