Description
- Offers an integrative framework for understanding and changing the effects of normative beliefs about parenting on "choices" at the work-family interface and on outcomes for careers, couple and children.
- Highlights a wide range of multi-method studies of the work-family interface from multiple countries.
- Employs a micro-, meso-, and macro-level perspective on creating and promoting sustainability in combining career and care.
- Sheds a new light on popular misconceptions and stereotype reproductions in the media about the challenges, choices, and consequences of combining career and care for working parents.
- Posits an innovative process model for changing normative beliefs about parenting and career success: The "Triple-N Model" of (1) Nominating Norms, (2) Navigating Norms (3) and creating New, No-nonsense Norms.
Book Information
ISBN 9781118622278
Author Marloes L. Van Engen
Format Paperback
Page Count 500
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 290g