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Author Hampson, Sarah Cote, author

Title The balance gap : working mothers and the limits of the law / Sarah Cote Hampson
Published Stanford, California : Stanford Law Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2017

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Contents Introduction : in pursuit of "balance" -- Navigating the rules in public universities -- Navigating the rules in the U.S. military -- Looking out and speaking up : individual agency and networks -- Status speaks : the importance of rank -- In the shadow of the ideal worker -- Conclusion : can mothers ever be ideal workers?
Summary In recent decades, laws and workplace policies have emerged that seek to address the "balance" between work and family. Millions of women in the U.S. take some time off when they give birth or adopt a child, making use of "family-friendly" laws and policies in order to spend time recuperating and to initiate a bond with their children. The Balance Gap traces the paths individual women take in understanding and invoking work/life balance laws and policies. Conducting in-depth interviews with women in two distinctive workplace settings--public universities and the U.S. military--Sarah Cote Hampson uncovers how women navigate the laws and the unspoken cultures of their institutions. Activists and policymakers hope that family-friendly law and policy changes will not only increase women's participation in the workplace, but also help women experience greater workplace equality. As Hampson shows, however, these policies and women's abilities to understand and utilize them have fallen short of fully alleviating the tensions that women across the nation are still grappling with as they try to reconcile their work and family responsibilities
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Mothers -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- United States
Working mothers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
Work and family -- United States
Women college teachers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Mothers -- Employment -- Law and legislation
Women college teachers -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Work and family
Working mothers -- Legal status, laws, etc.
SUBJECT United States -- Armed Forces -- Women -- Legal status, laws, etc
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016038326
ISBN 9781503600058
150360005X