Published
Sep 12, 2018Page count
232 pagesISBN
978-1529202038Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Sep 12, 2018Page count
232 pagesISBN
978-1529202021Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Sep 12, 2018Page count
232 pagesISBN
978-1529202069Dimensions
Imprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Sep 12, 2018Page count
232 pagesISBN
978-1529202076Dimensions
Imprint
Bristol University Press
Women's Work
In the media
On our blog: PODCAST: Working mothers and the work-life balance myth
On our blog: 'A quiet responsibility: how mothers manage the complexities of flexible working'
'Leaning in is not enough – it is workplaces, not women, that need to change' in Global Institute for Women's Leadership Blog
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.
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.
Preface;
Women in the middle;
Choosing flexibility;
Seeking balance;
Compromised choices;
Doing flexibility;
Feeling flexibility;
Stresses and successes;
Making motherhood, careers and flexibility work.
