Women's Work How mothers manage flexible working in careers and family life

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Author:
Zoe Young
ISBN:
9781529202045
Publisher:
Bristol University Press
Pages:
216
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2018-09-12
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2018
Copyright by:
Bristol University Press 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Sociology