The Balance Gap - Working Mothers and the Limits of the Law (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2017
Authors:	Sarah Cote Hampson
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	168
ISBN-13:	978-1-5036-0005-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies Books > Law > English law > Private, property, family > Gender law Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Financial, taxation, commercial, industrial law > Employment & labour law Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-5036-0005-X
Barcode:	9781503600058

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