Work/Life Balance, Gender Equity and Social Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11228702 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Connell (0000-0001-8001-2375, corresponding author), R W Connell |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 369-383 |
| Publication date | 2005-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0157-6321 • E-ISSN: 1839-4655 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/j.1839-4655.2005.tb00978.x |
| OpenAlex | W1565295846 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 41 |
| References cited | 26 |
‘Work/life balance’ as a contemporary issue is fundamentally linked with gender justice. The issue emerged from historical transformations of the gender order, in which masculinities and femininities were attached to distinct spheres of home and workplace; but this institutional division has been weakening. Current dilemmas are documented in a field study of gender equity issues in ten public sector worksites. Because domestic labour is still predominantly women's work, ‘family friendly’ workplace policies mainly serve to support women's domestic commitments. Women are held accountable for managing the balance, though this has now also become part of the work of managers. Other aspects of public sector restructuring work against men's commitment to domestic equality. In these circumstances the ideal of ‘balance’ is itself open to debate. The ideological consequences of the re‐inscription of maternity and contemporary anxieties about masculinity require a renewal of the concept of the common good as a basis of policy
Balance (ability · Economics · Equity (law · Gender equity · Ideology · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Project commissioning · Public relations · Public sector · Publishing · Restructuring · Separate spheres · Sociology · Unpaid work · Work (physics · Work–life balance · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Work-Family Balance Challenges
Work-life 'balance' and gendered (im)mobilities of knowledge and learning in high-tech regional economies
Konaklama İşletmeleri̇nde Çalişan Kadinlar Açisindan Toplumsal Ci̇nsi̇yet Algisinin İş Yaşam Dengesi̇ Üzeri̇ne Etki̇si̇
The widening gender wage gap in the gig economy in China
Raising gender awareness through language, institutions, and biodiversity
Health-Related Assistance Programs, Leadership Support, and Organizational Performance
Changing Patterns of Work–Life Balance of Women Scientists and Engineers in India
Beyond (but not too much) the male breadwinner model
Navigating the demographic shift
The gender gap in work–life balance satisfaction across occupations
Onwards and Upwards? Gender and Work in Ireland
Mastering the art of prime ministership
Leadership experiences and practices of South African health managers
News from the Coalface
Gender Politics and Public Policy Making
Advancing Gender Reform in Large-scale Organisations
Suiting Ourselves
Transition experiences of candidate attorneys in South African law firms
A chip off the old block? Perceptions of intergenerational role modelling through paired depth interviews with fathers and adult sons
The deal
Género, colonización y aculturación en la provincia española del Sáhara (1885-1975)
The Price You Pay”
I might be a bit of a front runner’
Live to Work’ or ‘Work to Live’? A Qualitative Study of Gender and Work–life Balance among Men and Women in Mid‐life
Gender and telework
Critical considerations of workplace flexibility “for all” and gendered outcomes
The Experience of Gender Change in Public Sector Organizations
Men, Paid Employment and Family Responsibilities
Working fathers' in Japan
If I Had a Family, There Is No Way That I Could Afford to Work Here’
Marriage‐like relationships’ and social security in Australia
Assessing the impact of social, demographic, and economic factors on the economic empowerment of rural women in agricultural activities
Transformation and time-out
Relationships between work–life balance and job-related factors among child welfare workers
Never enough hours in the day”
Gender role attitudes and the division of housework in young married couples in northern Vietnam
Who benefits from work‐life programs? Lessons in gender and race from OPM's Federal Work‐Life Survey
Women and part-time employment
Unfortunately I'm a Massively Heavy Sleeper
Multilevel Continua of Mothers, Fathers and Childless Women and Men's Work-Life "Choices" and Their Constraints, Enablers and Consequences
Managing the work-life roller-coaster
Getting through' not 'going under
The Work/Life Collision
Managing like a man
Family fortunes
The Disenchantment of the Home
Intimacy
Knowledge Work and Knowledge-Intensive Firms
Gender, Relationship Status, and Stereotyping about Sexual Risk
The Time Bind
Secretaries talk
The McDonaldization of society
Economic Rationalism in Canberra
Transformations of Patriarchy in the West, 1500-1900
Limited Livelihoods
Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale
Performing Masculinities? The ‘Salaryman' at Work and Play
Sexual Politics and Greedy Institutions
Glass Ceilings or Gendered Institutions? Mapping the Gender Regimes of Public Sector Worksites
Blue, White and Pink Collar Workers in Australia. Technicians, Bank Employees and Flight Attendants
The Archaeology of Gender
Spheres of Justice
The Postmodern Condition
Patterns of change and stability in the gender division of household labour in Australia, 1986-1997
Globalization and Business Masculinities
Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies
Change among the Gatekeepers
| Unique citing works | 41 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,95 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 41 |