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In this special issue on Sustainability in Combining Career and Care, eight empirical studies following from an integrative framework address normative beliefs about parenting, choices in combining work and family, and outcomes for individual careers, couples, and children.
  • Offersan 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 careerand care for working parents.
  • Posits an innovative process model for changing normative beli

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Sustainability in Combining Career and Care: Challenging Normative Beliefs about Parenting Marloes L. van Engen Claartje J. Vinkenburg Josje S. E. Dikkers 645

    Section I The Work-Family Interface

    Workload, Work-to-Family Conflict, and Health: Gender Differences and the Influence of Private Life Context Marc J. P. M. van Veldhoven Susanne E. Beijer 665

    The Association between Work-Family Guilt and Pro- and Anti-Social Work Behavior Whitney Botsford Morgan Eden B. King 684

    Section II Normative Beliefs About Parenting

    The "Bad Parent" Assumption: How Gender Stereotypes Affect Reactions to Working Mothers Tyler G. Okimoto Madeline E. Heilman 704

    Bias in Employment Decisions about Mothers and Fathers: The (Dis)Advantages of Sharing Care Responsibilities Claartje J. Vinkenburg Marloes L. van Engen Jennifer Coffeng Josje S. E. Dikkers 725

    Section III Family-Friendly Arrangements and Individual Career Outcomes

    Pursuing Career Success while Sustaining Personal and Family Weil-Being A Study of Reduced-Load Professionals over Time Douglas T. Hall Maty Dean Lee Ellen Ernst Kossek Mireia Las Heras 742

    Entitled to a Sustainable Career? Motherhood in Science, Engineering, and Technology Clem Hainan Suzan Lewis 767

    Section IV The Work-Family Interface and Couple- And Family-Related Outcomes

    Work-Family Conflict in Sri Lanka: Negotiations of Exchange Relationships in Family and at Work Pavithra Kailasapathy Isabel Metz 790

    The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Gender, Culture, and College Students' Views about Work and Family Wendy A. Goldberg Erin Kelly Nicole L. Matthews Hannah Kang Weilin Li Mariya Sumaroka 814

    Discussion

    The "Triple-N" Model: Changing Normative Beliefs about Parenting and Career Success Steven Poelmans 838

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 22/03/2013
      ISBN13: 9781118622278, 978-1118622278
      ISBN10: 1118622278
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this special issue on Sustainability in Combining Career and Care, eight empirical studies following from an integrative framework address normative beliefs about parenting, choices in combining work and family, and outcomes for individual careers, couples, and children.
      • Offersan 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 careerand care for working parents.
      • Posits an innovative process model for changing normative beli

        Table of Contents

        Introduction

        Sustainability in Combining Career and Care: Challenging Normative Beliefs about Parenting Marloes L. van Engen Claartje J. Vinkenburg Josje S. E. Dikkers 645

        Section I The Work-Family Interface

        Workload, Work-to-Family Conflict, and Health: Gender Differences and the Influence of Private Life Context Marc J. P. M. van Veldhoven Susanne E. Beijer 665

        The Association between Work-Family Guilt and Pro- and Anti-Social Work Behavior Whitney Botsford Morgan Eden B. King 684

        Section II Normative Beliefs About Parenting

        The "Bad Parent" Assumption: How Gender Stereotypes Affect Reactions to Working Mothers Tyler G. Okimoto Madeline E. Heilman 704

        Bias in Employment Decisions about Mothers and Fathers: The (Dis)Advantages of Sharing Care Responsibilities Claartje J. Vinkenburg Marloes L. van Engen Jennifer Coffeng Josje S. E. Dikkers 725

        Section III Family-Friendly Arrangements and Individual Career Outcomes

        Pursuing Career Success while Sustaining Personal and Family Weil-Being A Study of Reduced-Load Professionals over Time Douglas T. Hall Maty Dean Lee Ellen Ernst Kossek Mireia Las Heras 742

        Entitled to a Sustainable Career? Motherhood in Science, Engineering, and Technology Clem Hainan Suzan Lewis 767

        Section IV The Work-Family Interface and Couple- And Family-Related Outcomes

        Work-Family Conflict in Sri Lanka: Negotiations of Exchange Relationships in Family and at Work Pavithra Kailasapathy Isabel Metz 790

        The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Gender, Culture, and College Students' Views about Work and Family Wendy A. Goldberg Erin Kelly Nicole L. Matthews Hannah Kang Weilin Li Mariya Sumaroka 814

        Discussion

        The "Triple-N" Model: Changing Normative Beliefs about Parenting and Career Success Steven Poelmans 838

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