The Balance Gap. Working Mothers and the Limits of the Law.
Sarah Hampson
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hardcover. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JPQB; LAQG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556. .
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 ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9781503600058
SKU
V9781503600058
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99-50
About Sarah Hampson
Sarah Cote Hampson is Assistant Professor of Public Law at the University of Washington Tacoma.
Reviews for The Balance Gap. Working Mothers and the Limits of the Law.
"The Balance Gap offers an important analysis of why all workplaces are not the same even if they follow the same family friendly policies. By contrasting the university with the military, we see how social and environmental context are having as much or more effect on a woman's likelihood to take advantage of their policy rights as the policies themselves." ... Read more