From 'work-family' to the 'gendered life course' and 'fit': five challenges to the field
Abstract: "This paper introduces the concepts of the 'gendered life course' and 'life-course fit' in order to provide a broader, dynamic, and contextual perspective on the match or mismatch characterizing the social environments confronting workers, their families, and their communities. It summarizes five challenges confronting scholars of community, work, family, and policy: (1) updating outdated concepts and categories; (2) incorporating the gendered life course and family strategies to improve fit; (3) recognizing social change; (4) seeking work-time policy transformation, not simply assimilation or accommodation; and (5) focusing on prevention. In doing so, it provides a very brief history of the work family intersection from a US vantage point, along with an overview of organizational response by employers to the 'work-family' conundrum. There is a growing recognition that a sense of fit or misfit in terms of rising temporal demands, limited temporal resources and outdated work-hour co
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Von 'Arbeit-Familie' zum 'geschlechtsspezifischen Lebenslauf' und 'Lebenslaufanpassung': fünf Herausforderungen
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
- Umfang
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Online-Ressource, 19 S.
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Veröffentlichungsversion
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Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Bildung, Arbeit und Lebenschancen, Abteilung Ausbildung und Arbeitsmarkt ; Bd. 2010-501
- Schlagwort
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Lebensverlauf
Familie-Beruf
Soziale Schicht
Arbeitszeitgestaltung
Deutschland
Lebenslauf
Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf
Soziale Schichtung
Arbeitszeitgestaltung
Flexible Arbeitszeit
Deutschland
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Berlin
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2010
- Urheber
- Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen
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Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-130461
- Rechteinformation
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Beteiligte
- Moen, Phyllis
- Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
Entstanden
- 2010
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