Communication and the Work-Life Balancing Act: Intersections across Identities, Genders, and Cultures offers scholarly research related to work-life balance in today's environment, with a particular focus on the fields of communication and gender studies. The chapters examine the choices, challenges, and gendered experiences that women and men face as they navigate structures of work, domestic duties, and childcare in search of balance. Underpinning this text is the notion that work-life balance affects everyone but is experienced differently through the intersections of sex, age, gender, socioeconomic status, and race. Recommended for scholars of communication, gender studies, organizational communication, sociology, and family communication.
Contents Foreword Patrice Buzzanell Introduction Elizabeth Fish Hatfield Crafting the Modern Ideal Worker Chapter 1 The ideal teleworker: A critique of ideal-worker constructions in a nonstandard work environment Millie A. Harrison Chapter 2 What work-life balance? Ohio welfare to work program managers' focus on paid work Tiffany Taylor, Katrina Bloch, and Brianna Turgeon Chapter 3 Putting your career first: Forbes' guilt-free working mom Samantha Szczur Having It All in a Culture of Competing Demands Chapter 4 Freedom with limits: Communication, work-life balance and the "mompreneur" Cara Jacocks Chapter 5 Opting (back) in to paid work: A capitalist, gendered, classed, careerist analysis Erika L. Kirby with Timothy Kuhn, M. Chad McBride, George F. (Guy) McHendry, Jr., Rebecca J. Meisenbach, Robyn V. Remke, and Stacey M. B. Wieland Chapter 6 Innovative career-life initiatives for women faculty in STEM: A content analysis of funded NSF ADVANCE STEM Institutional Transformation proposals Elizabeth Tolman and Amanda Macht Jantzer Chapter 7 It's about priorities: Adaptation strategies of dual military couples David G. Smith Gender Roles at Home in a Dual Earner Society Chapter 8 "There's a thousand invisible things I do around here": Examining mothers' roles in the gendered division of labor on sitcoms Elizabeth Fish Hatfield Chapter 9 Work-family balance and immigrant Sub-Saharan women in the United States Gladys Muasya Chapter 10 Uncovering pathways to support for family relocation: The gendered influence of the divisions of housework and perceptions of fairness Shannon N. Davis, Julia Anderson, and Shannon K. Jacobsen Defining Work-Life Balance Beyond Mothers Chapter 11 Social stigma, child-free identities, and work-life balance Jessica M. Rick and Rebecca J. Meisenbach Chapter 12 Tracing the Daddy Wars: The emergence of dad culture and the prioritization of work-life balance Elizabeth Fish Hatfield and Katherine Hampsten Chapter 13 Paternity leave, identity and fatherhood Scott Sellnow-Richmond and Loraleigh Keashley About the Editor and Contributors
