Family friendly working policies and practices: Motivations, influences and impacts for employers
Autor/in:
Lyonette, Clare; Baldauf, Beate
Quelle: UK Government Equalities Office; , 2019.
Inhalt: The aim of this review of the literature is to better understand what leads employers to offer and promote family-friendly workplace policies (FFWPs), and which interventions are likely to be successful in encouraging this, in order to build the evidence base on key themes around what works to close the gender pay gap (GPG). The review responds to the following research questions:
•What factors influence employers to offer employee benefits, in particular family-friendly policies?
•What evidence exists that family-friendly policies benefit or disadvantageemployers (actual or perceived)?
•What policy interventions have been demonstrated to be successful (or could potentially be successful) in encouraging employers to offer family-friendly policies?
The review followed a 5-step process: setting search parameters, searching, screening, data extraction and synthesis. Literature from 2008 onwards (including grey literature) was included from the UK, mainland EU, the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Work–life balance for native and migrant scholars in German academia : Meanings and practices
Autor/in:
Gewinner, Irina
Quelle: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, (2019)
Inhalt: The purpose of this paper is to address notions and practices relating to work–life balance for native German scholars and researchers who have migrated from the former Soviet Union (FSU). Issues will be explored from a cultural perspective, identifying culturally based interpretations of work–life balance.
Schlagwörter:caregiving; culture-sensitive approach; Diversity; german academia; motherhood; native and migrant scholars; Vereinbarkeit; WissenschaflerIn; work-life balance
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaft als Beruf, Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf
Who cares? : Gleichstellungspolitisches Positionspapier zur aktuellen Pflegepolitik
Herausgeber/in:
Familie in der Hochschule e.V.
Quelle: Familie in der Hochschule e.V.; , 2019.
Inhalt: Mit diesem gleichstellungspolitischen Positionspapier wird der Blick auf die Bedingungen gelenkt, unter denen Pflege durch Angehörige auf informeller Basis in den Familien stattfindet. Die Mitgliedseinrichtungen des Netzwerks wollen damit für ein Thema öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit schaffen, dass bisher wenig Resonanz im politischen Raum erfährt.
“I Want to be Both, but Is that Possible?”: : Communicating Mother-Scholar Uncertainty During Doctoral Candidacy
Autor/in:
Abetz, Jenna S.
Quelle: Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 12 (2019) 1, S 70–87
Inhalt: Doctoral study is a vulnerable time when students are faced with the task of establishing a new professional identity in a competitive environment, with financial stress, an uncertain future, and low status. This significant period of uncertainty is a particularly ripe context for higher education researchers to explore, as it simultaneously falls during important family formation and childbearing years. Through in-depth, semistructured interviews of 30 married women doctoral candidates, largely within the humanities and social sciences and the lens of uncertainty management theory, this investigation examines how women construct and manage uncertainty surrounding the mother-scholar identity.
Schlagwörter:motherhood; mother-scholar; Professor; Promotionsphase; women in higher education; work-life balance
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaft als Beruf, Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf
Community College Single-Parent Students’ Angst : Inequities Balancing Roles as Parent and Student
Autor/in:
Lovell, Elyse D’nn; Scott, Ravyn
Quelle: Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 98 (2019) 12, S 1–4
Inhalt: Single-parent students are predominantly female, identified as a marginalized group, and a growing population on community college campuses which poignantly suggests an opportunity for change. Single-parent students (n = 12) described angst as they balanced their roles and responsibilities between single-parent and student. Meg stated, “friends are not a priority. It’s like this constant balancing act. Everything is going a million miles a minute, so fast-the teaching, homework, learning, my kids, the days, studying.” Using a qualitative approach, interviews were conducted, themes generated, and needs established. The themes of structure, stress, and isolation were used to identify homework-support needs, and from the themes of guilt and isolation, family-friendly social activities were considered. The meaning was clarified to implement student–parent homework support groups and family-friendly social activities. This study was conducted by a single-parent undergraduate-researcher as a freshman with her faculty mentor; as a sophomore work-study student, she coordinates the student–parent program.
Schlagwörter:community college; parenthood; single parent; students' angst
CEWS Kategorie:Studium und Studierende, Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf
Gender in the Labor Market : The Role of Equal Opportunity and Family-Friendly Policies
Autor/in:
Doran; Bartel; Waldfogel
Quelle: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 5 (2019) 5, S 168–197
Inhalt: Although the gender wage gap in the United States has narrowed, women’s career trajectories diverge from men’s after the birth of children, suggesting a potential role for family-friendly policies. We provide new evidence on employer provision of these policies. Using the American Time Use Survey, we find that women are less likely than men to have access to any employer-provided paid leave and this differential is entirely explained by part-time status. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, we find that young women are more likely to have access to specifically designated paid parental leave, even in part-time jobs. Both data sets show insignificant gender differentials in access to employer-subsidized childcare and access to scheduling flexibility. We conclude with a discussion of policy implications.
Excellent and gender equal? : Academic motherhood and ‘gender blindness' in Norwegian academia
Autor/in:
Thun, Cecilie
Quelle: Gender Work Organ (Gender, Work & Organization), 27 (2019) 2, S 166–180
Inhalt: This article explores Norwegian female academics' experiences with academic motherhood in an organizational perspective. A main finding is that academia as an organization is greedy, uncertain, and has ‘blind spots' that reveal gender bias related to gender and parental status, especially mothers. By analysing the link between gendered organization of work and the legitimatizing of gender inequality, the article reveals ‘gender blindness' in the academic organization concerning gender and parental status. The article concludes that changes in academia — in line with academic capitalism — may indicate that the Norwegian model of work–life balance is under pressure. This article suggests that the organizational conditions for academic motherhood are important factors in order to understand the persistence of gender inequality.
Impact of Flexible Work Arrangements on Job Satisfaction Among the Female Teachers in the Higher Education Sector
Autor/in:
Rahman, Mayeesha Fairuz
Quelle: EJBM (European Journal of Business and Management), 11 (2019) 18
Inhalt: A remarkable growth of female participation has been observed in the job market of Bangladesh over the past few years. The number of female employees and their contribution is likely to increase further with the pace of the country’s development in terms of the literacy rate and employment scope. Among the several thriving sectors of the country, the significance of the education sector especially in the tertiary level is highlighted by the noble contribution they make to the economy. Due the rapid increase in the number of private universities over the past few years in the country, quite a large number of women have chosen to embark on this field with the hopes of establishing themselves as academicians. However, one of the existing impediments which obstructs several women to reach their zenith professionally is rigid company policies specifically lack of flexibility. The importance of Flexible Work Arrangements (FWA) has recently gained the attention of academicians as well as practitioners to improve employee performance. Since participation of women in a noble sector like education is highly desired; hence, the present study aims to investigate the relationship between Flexible Work Arrangements (FWA), Employee Job satisfaction and Work-life Balance of the female teachers in the higher education sector of the country. Based on the analysis of diverse literature from the secondary data, hypotheses were developed and in order to test those, primary data had been collected, responses from 203 female teachers were analyzed through SPSS. The findings have confirmed that FWA have positive and significant impact both on Employee Job Satisfaction and Work-life Balance as well as Work-life Balance has a positive impact on Job Satisfaction. However, one of the elements of FWA, namely, Compressed Workweek, is found to have values lower than the significance level after performing regression analysis.
Geschlechterungleichheiten in der Universitätsmedizin : Zum Einfluss der Organisationskultur auf den Ausstieg von Habilitandinnen
Autor/in:
Ginal, Marina
Quelle: Springer VS, 2019, 1. 393 S
Inhalt: Überdurchschnittlich viele Frauen verlassen die Wissenschaft in der Habilitationsphase. Das untersucht Marina Ginal am Beispiel des Ausstiegs von Hochschulmedizinerinnen aus dem Wissenschaftsbetrieb. Die Studie zeigt im qualitativen Längsschnitt die charakteristischen Hürden einer Habilitation. Sie verknüpft soziologische und psychologische Einflüsse auf dem Weg zur Professur und erläutert, warum „Gläsernen Decken“ heute vor allem als individuelles Scheitern erscheinen. Hierfür werden die untersuchten Prozesse u.a. mit Theorien über hegemonial männliche Organisationskulturen, unternehmerische Arbeitsweisen sowie mit Salutogenese, Disstress und Selbstwirksamkeit verbunden. Die Studie verknüpft damit individualpsychologische Prozesse mit deren gesellschaftlicher Bedeutung für zeitgenössische Ungleichheiten und plädiert für dringend erforderliche Änderungen der Organisationskultur.
Schlagwörter:gatekeeping; Gender Studies; Geschlechterforschung; Geschlechterverhältnisse; Gleichstellung; Habilitation; lack of fit; medicine; Medizin; Mutterschutz; Organisationskultur; organizational culture; social sciences; Sozialwissenschaft
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaft als Beruf, Hochschulen, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf
Elternschaft als Arbeit : Familiales Care-Handeln für Kinder - Eine arbeitssoziologische Analyse
Autor/in:
Derboven, Wibke
Quelle: transcript (Care - Forschung und Praxis), 2019. 177 S
Inhalt: Eltern geraten oft an die Grenzen ihrer Belastbarkeit: Kinder zu versorgen ist harte Arbeit, die zunehmend unter ungenügenden sozio-ökonomischen Rahmenbedingungen realisiert werden muss. Dennoch konzentrieren sich Wissenschaft und Politik in ihren Analysen immer noch auf die Erwerbsarbeit. Diese Studie ändert das: Wibke Derboven blickt unter arbeitssoziologischer Perspektive tief hinein in die Arbeit von Eltern verschiedenster gesellschaftlicher Bereiche. Ihre Ergebnisse zeigen ein gleichermaßen breites wie differenziertes Bild elterlicher Arbeitsweisen und machen deutlich: Eltern haben zum Teil höhere Anforderungen zu meistern als Erwerbsarbeitende der obersten Hierarchieebenen.