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Maternity leave : policy and practice
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ISBN: 1000740870 1000740617 0429298323 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge,

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What does it mean to be a successful working parent? And how do working parents cope in the United States, the only developed nation with no paid parental leave requirement? Despite some positive advancement in the voluntary adoption of paid parental leave, many organizations over the past 25 years have instead decreased paid leave benefits offered to employees in the United States, choosing instead to let unpaid leave under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) serve in its place. This regression in practice is perhaps the greatest unintended consequence of FMLA and surely was not the intent of Congress. Maternity Leave: Policy and Practice, Second Edition approaches parental leave from a variety of perspectives: legal, political, social, institutional, organizational, and, most importantly, from the personal perspectives of the women and men interviewed expressly for the book. This second edition offers two new chapters: the first puts the issue of maternity leave within the context of work-life balance issues, and the second explores case studies from states, cities, and private organizations. Incorporating new census data, related reports, and academic studies, authors Victoria Gordon and Beth M. Rauhaus utilize relevant and cutting-edge research in their exploration of parental leave, and they enrich this research with the individual stories of ordinary working parents as well as those who choose not to have children. Assuming no prior specialized knowledge, this book can be assigned on a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in politics, public policy, public administration, gender studies, and human resource management, and will equally be of interest to parents, policy makers, and C-suite managers.


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Work Family Interface and Psychological Well-being Following a Return to Work After Maternity Leave
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Liège Université de Liège (ULiège)

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La transition vers le rôle maternel et les ajustements dans le milieu professionnel qui en découlent pour les nouvelles mères est une problématique toujours plus d’actualité étant donné l’augmentation du nombre de femmes actives dans le monde du travail (Statbel, 2016). Néanmoins, Spitzemueller et Matthews (2016) mettent en évidence le manque d’attention portée à cette population dans les nombreuses recherches de ces dernières années concernant l’interface travail-famille.
La présente recherche a pour objectif d’étudier la conciliation vie privée-vie professionnelle à une période critique qu’est le retour au travail après un congé de maternité. Cette période représente un challenge particulier pour les nouvelles mères. En effet, en plus de devoir s’ajuster aux normes de leur nouveau rôle maternel, elles doivent s’adapter à plusieurs changements physiologique, psychologique, économique et social (Spitzmueller & Matthews, 2016).
Sur base des modèles d’interface travail-famille de Frone et al. (1992) et du Work-Home Resources Model (ten Brummelhuis & Bakker, 2012), certains facteurs contextuels (Ambiguïté de rôle, support social, culture organisationnelle, surcharge de travail) et individuels (Importance des rôles) impliqués dans le réajustement professionnel après une absence due à un congé de maternité ont été étudiés. Aussi, selon les recommandations de Geer et Egan (2012), nous avons évalué le rôle modérateur de l’importance des rôles sur la relation entre les demandes et ressources contextuelles liées à chaque rôle et le réajustement professionnel.
Les résultats mettent en évidence la nécessité de prendre en compte l’importance des rôles dans les études en psychologie du travail et des organisations. De plus, l’étude en elle-même permet de mettre en lumière une situation méconnue à savoir, celle d’une mère reprenant le travail.


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Fixing Parental Leave : The Six Month Solution
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ISBN: 1479820148 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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A real-world solution for parental leave that promotes gender equality at work and at homeWhat do Papua New Guinea, Suriname, and the United States have in common? These three nations are the only ones that do not offer some form of parental leave to new parents. The US lags far behind the rest of the world on this important issue, raising questions about our commitment to gender equality and the welfare of our families.In Fixing Parental Leave, Gayle Kaufman takes an in-depth look at parental leave policies in the US, the UK, and Sweden, and evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of leave policies in each country. She finds that there is more to parental leave policies than whether a country provides time off around the birth or adoption of a child. While most policies are designed to help women return to work, this is only half of the puzzle. The second half requires men to be meaningful partners by encouraging them to take equal time at home.Ultimately, Kaufman arrives at a rational solution that will promote gender equity through a policy that enables parents at companies of all sizes to spend six months with their new child.


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The Ecology of Childhood : How Our Changing World Threatens Children’s Rights
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ISBN: 0814784658 081479484X Year: 2020 Publisher: New York : New York University Press

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This book uses the ecological model of child development together with ethnographic and comparative studies of two small villages, in Italy and the United States, as its framework for examining the well-being of children in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Global forces, far from being distant and abstract, are revealed as wreaking havoc in children's environments even in economically advanced countries. Falling birth rates, deteriorating labor conditions, fraying safety nets, rising rates of child poverty, and a surge in racism and populism in Europe and the United States are explored in the petri dish of the village. Globalization's discontents-unrestrained capitalism and technological change, rising inequality, mass migration, and the juggernaut of climate change-are rapidly destabilizing and degrading the social and physical environments necessary to our collective survival and well-being. This crisis demands a radical restructuring of our macrosystemic value systems. Woodhouse proposes an ecogenerist theory that asks whether our policies and politics foster environments in which children and families can flourish. It proposes, as a benchmark, the family-supportive human-rights principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The book closes by highlighting ways in which individuals can engage at the local and regional levels in creating more just and sustainable worlds that are truly fit for children.

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Children's rights. --- Child welfare. --- Children --- Child development. --- Sustainable development. --- Globalization. --- Government policy. --- ACE. --- Adverse Childhood Experiences. --- Anti-immigrant. --- Austerity. --- Backlash. --- Best interest. --- Birth rate. --- Brexit. --- Bronfenbrenner. --- Capitalism. --- Cedar key. --- Child poverty. --- Child-friendly Cities. --- Childcare. --- Childrearing. --- Children’s Voices. --- Children’s rights. --- Circular Economy. --- Climate Change. --- Community. --- Comparative legal method. --- Constitutional rights. --- Demography. --- Depopulation. --- Developmental Equality. --- Discrimination. --- Ecogenerism. --- Ecological Model. --- Ecological. --- Economics. --- Education. --- Environmentalist. --- Ethnography. --- Extended Family. --- Faith community. --- Family policy. --- Fertility. --- Gender roles. --- Globalism. --- Grandparents. --- Grassroots. --- Great Recession. --- Harlem Children’s Zone. --- Housing. --- Human rights. --- Identity. --- Indivisibility. --- Inequality. --- Infant mortality. --- Italy. --- Juvenile justice. --- La Sanita’. --- Malnutrition. --- Maltreatment. --- Maternity Leave. --- Mesosystem. --- Microsystem. --- Migration. --- NEETs. --- Nature. --- Neuroscience. --- OECD. --- Parenthood. --- Paternity Leave. --- Peer Group. --- Play. --- Preschool. --- Public/Private. --- Race. --- Recession. --- Right to adoption. --- Right to education. --- Right to family. --- Right to identity. --- Right to inclusion. --- Right to participation. --- Right to play. --- Scanno. --- Social cohesion. --- Social policy. --- Sociology. --- Solidarity. --- Sustainability. --- Technology. --- Tradition. --- UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. --- United States. --- Urban. --- Value System. --- Vulnerability Theory. --- Well-being. --- childhood enders. --- Childhood --- Kids (Children) --- Pedology (Child study) --- Youngsters --- Age groups --- Families --- Life cycle, Human --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Child study --- Development, Child --- Developmental biology --- Child protective services --- Child protective services personnel --- CPS (Child protective services) --- Humane societies --- Protection of children --- Family policy --- Public welfare --- Social work with children --- Social work with youth --- Child rights --- Children's human rights --- Children's rights --- Rights of children --- Rights of the child --- Human rights --- Environmental aspects --- Development --- Charities --- Charities, protection, etc. --- Protection --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. --- Children's Voices. --- Harlem Children's Zone. --- La Sanita'.

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