Download e-book for iPad: Gender and the Work-Family Experience: An Intersection of by Maura J. Mills

Conflict among paintings and family members has been an issue of dialogue because the starting of the women's stream, yet contemporary alterations in relatives buildings and staff demographics have made it transparent that the problems influence either men and women. whereas employers and policymakers fight to navigate this new terrain, critics cost that the examine zone, too, has been sluggish to respond.

Gender and the Work-Family Experience places a number of faces – male in addition to lady – on advanced realities with interdisciplinary and cross-cultural know-how and research-based perception. in addition to reviewing the kingdom of gender roles as they have an effect on domestic and occupation, this in-depth reference examines and compares how men and women adventure work-family clash and its results for relationships at domestic in addition to results at the task. themes as wide-ranging as gendered occupations, gender and shiftwork, heteronormative assumptions, the parable of the proper employee, and gendered points of work-family guilt replicate major alterations in society and display very important implications for either learn and coverage. additionally integrated within the coverage: 

• Gender ideology and work-family plans of the following generation
• Gender, poverty, and the work-family interface
• The double jeopardy impression: the significance of gender and race in work-family research
• When paintings intrudes upon staff’ own time: does gender matter?
• Work-family equality: the significance of a degree taking part in box at home
• Women in STEM: family-related demanding situations and initiatives
• Family-friendly organizational guidelines, practices, and merits during the gender lens

Geared towards work-family and gender researchers in addition to scholars and educators in a number of fields, Gender and the Work-Family Experience will locate readers within the fields of business and organizational psychology, enterprise administration, social psychology, sociology, gender reviews, women’s reviews, and public coverage, between others..