Women's Work

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5292-0202-1
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Young, Zoe

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface;

Women in the middle;

Choosing flexibility;

Seeking balance;

Compromised choices;

Doing flexibility;

Feeling flexibility;

Stresses and successes;

Making motherhood, careers and flexibility work.

Über Autor(innen)

Young, Zoe
Zoe Young is an academic, consultant, writer and speaker. She researches women’s leadership, caring and careers, and gender diversity practices in organisations. Previously Zoe worked in the management consulting industry specialising in organisation design and culture change. Zoe established the consultancy Half the Sky Ltd to help organisations remove barriers, adjust cultures, and design practices that promote gender equality.

Zoe Young is an organisational sociologist, writer and consultant. She researches gender, work and organisation with a particular focus on women in leadership and management. Zoe founded the consultancy Half the Sky to put research into practice and make an impact on equality. Her PhD is from the University of Sussex.