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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xii, 252 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Both men and women are harmed when conditions make it impossible to balance meaningful work with family life. Liss and Schiffrin discuss the ways in which we define "having it all" and how we can obtain it for ourselves through a better evaluation of what we want from ourselves, our families, our jobs, and each other. They argue that people can find balance in their roles by doing things in moderation."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arlie Russell Hochschild, bestselling author of The Second Shift, spent three summers at a Fortune 500 company interviewing top executives, secretaries, factory hands, and others. What she found was startling: Though every mother and nearly every father said "family comes first," few of these working parents questioned their long hours or took the company up on chances for flextime, paternity leave, or other "family friendly" policies. Why not? It...
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"This edited volume of 13 original empirical chapters provides new insight into the uneven and stalled nature of the gender revolution in the United States in the 21st century. Organized in two parts, the book documents the influence of gender as a social institution as it intersects with other core social institutions and other key forms of inequality and highlights specific policy interventions needed to facilitate greater gender equality. An introductory...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
ix, 339 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A revolutionary, real-world solution to the problem of unpaid, invisible work that women have shouldered for too long--from a woman tapped by Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine as the expert on this topic for a new generation of women"--
Author
Publisher
Perseus Running [distributor]
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
ix, 338 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Packed with timelines, checklists, and tips, this guide prioritizes everything you need to know in order to get your home, health, work, and life ready for a new baby, as well as keep everything on track in the months after your child is born.
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
viii, 256 pages : tables and charts ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Must professional accomplishments come at the expense of having a full life? Not according to Wharton professor and leadership and work-life expert Stewart D. Friedman. In his new book, Friedman identifies critical skills for leading an authentic and balanced life, and illustrates them through the compelling stories of six remarkable high-profile people. He also shows how to develop and apply each skill through a series of exercises anyone can use....
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 319 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a guide for new moms coping with the demands of the real world after childbirth, offering advice on everything from returning to work and maintaining a work/life balance to breastfeeding and obtaining childcare.
"The Fifth Trimester is your new best friend: a brilliant, tells-it-like-it-is guide to help moms cope with all the demands of the real world after Baby arrives. The first three trimesters (and the fourth--those blurry newborn days)...
Author
Publisher
Harper Business
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 226 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the hidden power and potential of professional women in the workforce and how employees can use these qualities to their advantage when progressing in any career path.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiv, 185 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Parenting experts Karissa Tunis and Shari Medini share actionable tips, heartfelt insight, and planning strategies to help you enjoy your own parenting journey while working from home. Building on the authors' own experiences and the most common challenges they hear parents voicing today, Parenting While Working from Home encourages parents to make intentional changes that will result in happier families and thriving careers"--
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Feminists opened up thousands of doors in the 1960s and 1970s, but decades later, are U.S. women where they thought they would be? The answer, it turns out, is a resounding no. Surely there have been gains. Women now comprise nearly 60 percent of college undergraduates and half of all medical and law students. They have entered the workforce in record numbers, making the two wage earner family the norm. But combining a career and family turned out...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 327 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Combines autobiographical detail, cultural history, revelatory first-hand accounts, and research to unravel the sources of post-romantic discontent and offers inspiration for those who want more than the semi-happy status quo.
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Can working parents in America, or anywhere, ever find true leisure time? According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is "that place in which we realize our humanity." If that's true, argues the author, then we're doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity. In this book the author, a staff writer for The Washington Post, asks: Are our brains, our partners, our culture, and our bosses making it impossible...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Katrina Onstad, pushes back against this all-work, no-fun ethos that dominates our lives. Tired of suffering from Sunday night letdown, she digs into the history, positive psychology, and cultural anthropology of the great missing weekend and how we can revive it. Onstad follows the trail of people, companies, and countries who are vigilantly protecting their time off for joy, adventure, and most important, purpose. Filled with personal and professional...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 209 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Laura, building on principles developed during her long career as a licensed marriage and family therapist, provides a wealth of advice and support, as well as compassion and inspiration, to women as they navigate the wonders and struggles of being stay-at-home moms.
Author
Publisher
ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Commuter spouses--married couples who live apart due to the demands of their dual professional careers--shed light on a series of broad shifts in the dynamics of marriage, family, gender roles, and professional careers in the United States"--
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
272 pages cm
Language
English
Description
For many women in their 20's and 30's, the greatest professional hurdle they'll need to overcome has little to do with their work life. The most focused, confident, and ambitious women can find themselves derailed by a tiny little thing: a new baby. While more workplaces are espousing family-friendly cultures, women are still subject to a "parenting penalty" and high-profile conflicts between parenting and the workplace are all over the news: from...
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Finding fulfillment in both love and work isn't easy--but it's possible. The majority of couples today are two-career couples. As anyone who's part of such a relationship knows, this presents big challenges. Yet most advice for two-career couples fails because it treats the challenges as a zero-sum game in which one partner's gain is the other's loss. This pits partner against partner and frames solutions in the language of sacrifice and trade-offs....
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