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Nine facts about American families and work
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Year: 2014 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : Council of Economic Advisers, Executive Office of the President,

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The work-family interface : an introduction
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ISBN: 1483312259 1483323374 1483387933 Year: 2014 Publisher: Los Angeles : SAGE,

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While focused on the United States in respect to its target audience and emphasis, this title contains considerable international data that compares and contrasts social policies adopted in Europe and elsewhere. In so doing, it shows both the strengths and the limitations of the approaches used in the U.S.


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Grandmothers at work : juggling families and jobs
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ISBN: 081473815X 9780814738153 0814729231 0814729479 9780814729236 9780814729472 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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Winner of the 2014 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award presented by the Gerontological Society of AmericaYoung working mothers are not the only ones who are struggling to balance family life and careers. Many middle-aged American women face this dilemma as they provide routine childcare for their grandchildren while pursuing careers and trying to make ends meet. Employment among middle-aged women is at an all-time high. In the same way that women who reduce employment hours when raising their young children experience reductions in salary, savings, and public and private pensions, the mothers of those same women, as grandmothers, are rearranging hours to take care of their grandchildren, experiencing additional loss of salary and reduced old age pension accumulation. Madonna Harrington Meyer’s Grandmothers at Work, based primarily on 48 in-depth interviews conducted in 2009-2012 with grandmothers who juggle working and minding their grandchildren, explores the strategies of, and impacts on, working grandmothers. While all of the grandmothers in Harrington Meyer’s book are pleased to spend time with their grandchildren, many are readjusting work schedules, using vacation and sick leave time, gutting retirement accounts, and postponing retirement to care for grandchildren. Some simply want to do this; others do it in part because they have more security and flexibility on the job than their daughters do at their relatively new jobs. Many are sequential grandmothers, caring for one grandchild after the other as they are born, in very intensive forms of grandmothering. Some also report that they are putting off retirement out of economic necessity, in part due to the amount of financial help they are providing their grandchildren. Finally, some are also caring for their frail older parents or ailing spouses just as intensively. Most expect to continue feeling the pinch of paid and unpaid work for many years before their retirement. Grandmothers at Work provides a unique perspective on a phenomenon faced by millions of women in America today.


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The unfinished leader : balancing contradictory answers to unsolvable problems
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ISBN: 1118867149 1118867114 Year: 2014 Publisher: San Francisco, California : John Wiley & Sons,

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"A leader's work is never done--not only because of long to-do lists and frequent meetings, but because every leader must confront complex dilemmas that don't have easy answers, and in fact may not have any right answer at all. In business, as in life, the most perplexing issues aren't like math problems with a single solution. They are paradoxes: situations in which there will never be a single right answer, and they will be familiar to anyone in a leadership role. Should your company prioritize long-term investments, or short-term profitability? Will your incenitive plan measure and reward the performance of individuals, or teams? How can you devote enough time and energy to both your family and your coworkers? The Unfinished Leader is a guide for managing through paradoxes like these to ensure success across the organization. Leaders must first learn to recognize the problems they won't be able to solve, and confront the obstacles--in their own heads and in the organizations where they work--that will push them (wrongly) towards finding single solutions that don't exist. Then, they must develop the mindsets and skills that enable them to balance contradictory directions, fulfill competing demands, and adapt their approach over time. Based on over 30 years of consulting work with senior executives, as well as a series of exclusive interviews with 100 CEOs and top leaders in a wide range of companies about the paradoxes they face, The Unfinished Leader provides tested advice. The authors include vivid stories highlighting leaders and the real-world challenges they've faced at organizations such as Avon, Nike, Colgate, DeutschePost DHL, Johnson & Johnson, and many more.No one can, or should, look for perfect solutions to impossible solutions. The Unfinished Leader will help leaders at all levels understand that their true task is to guide themselves and their teams through impossible-seeming, ongoing situations--and, by reconciling competing outcomes, drive lasting success for themselves and their teams"--

Across the boundaries of race and class : an exploration of work and family among Black female domestic servants
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ISBN: 1315861682 131794643X 9781317946434 9780815315421 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York : Routledge : Taylor & Francis Group,

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Beyond Mother's Day : helping the middle class balance work and family : hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, second session ... May 10, 2012.
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Year: 2014 Publisher: Washington : U.S. Government Printing Office,

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Beyond Mother's Day : helping the middle class balance work and family : hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, second session ... May 10, 2012.
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Women, work, and family : how companies thrive with a 21st-century multicultural workforce
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ISBN: 9798216167273 1440803099 9798216037767 9781440803109 1440803102 9781440803093 Year: 2014 Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : New York : Praeger, Bloomsbury Publishing (US),

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"A sweeping collection of new essays gathers historical background, theoretical perspectives, and the latest research on integrating work and personal life in a multigenerational workforce"--


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Women's Work and Family Values, 1920-1940
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ISBN: 0674865529 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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