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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fish Hatfield, Elizabeth, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Work-life balance.

Work and family.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 270 pages : illustration ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]

Summary:

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, challenges, and gendered experiences that women and men face as they navigate structures of work, domestic duties, and childcare in search of balance. Underpinning this text is the notion that work-life balance affects everyone but is experienced differently through the intersections of sex, age, gender, socioeconomic status, and race. Recommended for scholars of communication, gender studies, organizational communication, sociology, and family communication. -- back cover.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781498534154

1498534155

OCLC:

958798119