Women's work : how mothers manage flexible working in careers and family life / Zoe Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Zoe, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Chicago, Il : Bristol University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Shortlisted for the BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2019. What’s it really like to be a mother with a career working flexibly? Drawing on over 100 hours of interview data, this book is the first to go inside women’s work and family lives in a year of working flexibly. The private labours of going part-time, job sharing, and home working are brought to life with vivid personal stories. Taking a sociological and feminist perspective, it explores contemporary motherhood, work-life balance, emotional work in families, couples and housework, maternity transitions, interactions with employers, work design and workplace cultures, and employment policies. It concludes that there is an opportunity to make employment and family life work better together and offers unique insights from women’s lived experiences on how to do it.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Women in the Middle

Choosing Flexibility

Seeking Balance

Compromised Choices

Doing Flexibility

Feeling Flexibility

Stresses and Successes

Making Motherhood, Careers and Flexibility Work

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5292-0204-3

OCLC:

1050437491