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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.
Contents
Contents
Foreword
Patrice Buzzanell
Introduction
Elizabeth Fish Hatfield
Crafting the Modern Ideal Worker
Chapter 1
The ideal teleworker: A critique of ideal-worker constructions in a nonstandard work environment
Millie A. Harrison
Chapter 2
What work-life balance? Ohio welfare to work program managers' focus on paid work
Tiffany Taylor, Katrina Bloch, and Brianna Turgeon
Chapter 3
Putting your career first: Forbes' guilt-free working mom
Samantha Szczur
Having It All in a Culture of Competing Demands
Chapter 4
Freedom with limits: Communication, work-life balance and the "mompreneur"
Cara Jacocks
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 7
It's about priorities: Adaptation strategies of dual military couples
David G. Smith
Gender Roles at Home in a Dual Earner Society
Chapter 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
Chapter 9
Work-family balance and immigrant Sub-Saharan women in the United States
Gladys Muasya
Chapter 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
Defining Work-Life Balance Beyond Mothers
Chapter 11
Social stigma, child-free identities, and work-life balance
Jessica M. Rick and Rebecca J. Meisenbach
Chapter 12
Tracing the Daddy Wars: The emergence of dad culture and the prioritization of work-life balance
Elizabeth Fish Hatfield and Katherine Hampsten
Chapter 13
Paternity leave, identity and fatherhood
Scott Sellnow-Richmond and Loraleigh Keashley
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