It's about Time : Couples and Careers / Phyllis Moen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moen, Phyllis, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Work and family--United States.

Work and family.

Families--Time management--United States.

Families.

Dual-career families--United States.

Dual-career families.

Time management--United States.

Time management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 436 p. :) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How do two-career couples manage in a one-career world?It's about Time examines this mismatch between outdated scripts and the experiences of dual-earner couples. It broadens our understanding of occupational and family career strategies couples use in light of the widening gap between their real lives and the outdated work-hour and career-path roles, rules, and regulations they confront. It's about Time draws on the data from the Cornell Couples and Careers Study to demonstrate that:*Regardless of income, time is a scarce commodity in dual-earner households. With two jobs, two commutes, often long work hours, high job demands, business travel, several cars, children, ailing relatives, and/or pets - time is always an issue.*Time is built into jobs and career paths in ways that make continuous full-time (40 or typically more hours a week) paid work a fact of life in American society. *The multiple strands of life-career, family and personal-unfold over time. Spouses move through their life courses in tandem, with early choices - to have children or not, to work long hours or not, to switch jobs or not, to relocate for his or her career or not-all having long-term consequences for life quality and for gender inequality.The evidence from this book suggests that it is about time for the United States to confront the realities and needs of contemporary working couples and indeed, all members of the new workforce. To do so requires more than Band-Aid, short-term (and often short-sighted) policy remedies. It's about Time argues that it is essential to re-imagine and reconfigure work hours, workweeks, and occupational career paths in ways that address the widening gaps between the time needs and goals of workers and their families, at all ages and stages of the life course.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword / Christensen, Kathleen / Gomory, Ralph

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction / Moen, Phyllis

Part One. Time Strategies

2. Time Clocks: Work-Hour Strategies / Moen, Phyllis / Sweet, Stephen

3. Competing Clocks: Work and Leisure / Clarkberg, Marin / Merola, Stacey S.

4. Family Clocks: Timing Parenthood / Altucher, Kristine A. / Williams, Lindy B.

5. Commuting Clocks: Journey to Work / Hofmeister, Heather

6. Career Clocks: Forked Roads / Williams, Sonya / Han, Shin-Kap

Part Two. Strains, Successes, and Subjective Assessments

7. Spillover / Roehling, Patricia V. / Moen, Phyllis / Batt, Rosemary

8. Well-Being / Kim, Jungmeen E. / Moen, Phyllis / Min, Hyunjoo

9. Success / Moen, Phyllis / Waismel-Manor, Ronit / Sweet, Stephen

10. Managing Households / Orrange, Robert M. / Firebaugh, Francille M. / Heck, Ramona K. Z.

11. Turning Points in Work Careers / Wethington, Elaine / Pixley, Joy E. / Kavey, Allison

12. Prioritizing Careers / Pixley, Joy E. / Moen, Phyllis

Part Three. Community, Organizational, and Policy Contexts

13. Sunday Morning Rush Hour / Hofmeister, Heather / Edgell, Penny

14. The New Technology Climate / Chesley, Noelle / Moen, Phyllis / Shore, Richard P.

15. Alternative Employment Arrangements / Marler, Janet H. / Tolbert, Pamela S. / Milkovich, George T.

16. Moving toward Retirement / Hutchens, Robert M. / Dentinger, Emma

17. The Case of Same-Sex Couples / Mock, Steven E. / Cornelius, Steve W.

18. Institutionalizing Family-Friendly Policies / Still, Mary C. / Strang, David

19. Work-Life Integration: Challenges and Organizational Responses / Valcour, P. Monique / Batt, Rosemary

Epilogue: Toward a Policy Agenda / Moen, Phyllis

Appendix: Methodological Notes on The Cornell Couples and Careers Study / Moen, Phyllis / Roehling, Patricia V. / Sweet, Stephen / Townsend, Bickley / Lee, Shinok / Harris-Abbott, Deborah / O'Brien, Liane / Campbell, Kristin

Notes

References

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-415) and indexes.

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ISBN:

9781501728921

150172892X

OCLC:

1035911849