Work - Life Balance

Books and Articles

I. Values Clarification

Austin, L. What’s Holding You Back: 8 Critical Choices for Women’s Success. Basic Books. 2000.

Blair, GR. What Are Your Goals: Powerful Questions to Discover What You Want Out of Life. GoalsGuy Learning Systems. 1999.

Smith, HW. What Matters Most: The Power of Living Your Values. New York, NY: Franklin Covey. 2000.
Simon, SB & Howe L. Values Clarification. New York, NY: Warner Books. 1995.

II. Striving for Balance

Burrus, D. & A. Freedman, Work/Family Directions. Achieving Balance: How to Handle the Stress of Work & Family Life. Boston, MA: Work/Family Directions. 1990.

Coontz, S. The Way We Really Are-Coming To Terms With America's Changing Families. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1997.

Crofut, Pati & Knapp, Joanna. Working Parents, Happy Kids: Strategies for Staying Connected. Anchorage, AK: Turnagain Press. 1999.

Crosby, Faye J. Juggling-The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families. New York, NY: The Free Press. 1993.

Friedman, Stewart, and Greenhaus, Jeffery. Work and Family - Allies or Enemies? Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2000

Galinsky, Ellen. Ask The Children: What America's Children Really Think About Working Parents. New York, NY: William Morrow and Company. 1999.

Garey, A. Weaving Work and Motherhood. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1999.

Hochschild, Arlie. The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home & Home Becomes Work. New York: NY: Metropolitan Books. 1997.

Mason, Mary Ann & Ekman, Eve Mason. Mothers on the Fast Track: How a New Generation Can Balance Family and Careers. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007.

Nippert-Eng, C. Home and Work: Negotiating Boundaries Through Everyday Life. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1996.

Orenstein, P. Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love, and Life in a Half-changed World. New York, NY: Doubleday, 2000.

Perlow, Leslie A. Finding Time: How Corporations, Individuals and families Benefit from New Work Practices. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University. 1997.

Rayman, P. Beyond The Bottom Line. Palgrave. New York, NY. 2001.

Shellenbarger, S. Work & Family. New York, NY: Ballantine Books. 1999.

St. James, Elaine. Simplify your Life With Kids. Kansas City, Mo.: Andrew McMeel Publishing. 1997.

Valian, V. Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women.  Cambridge, MA. M.I.T. Press 1998.

Williams, J. Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It. New York, NY: Oxford University Press 2000.

Zappert, L. Getting it Right: How Working Mothers Successfully Take Up the Challenge of Life, Family, and Career. New York, NY: Pocket Books. 2001.

Flexible Schedules/Part Time Schedules:

Adams, Susan M. Part-time work: Models that Work. Women in Management Review, Vol. 10 (7), (1995): 21-31.

Boden, Richard J. Flexible Working Hours, Family Responsibilities, and Female Self-Employment: Gender Differences in Self-Employment Selection. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 58 (1), (1999): 71-83.

Catalyst. A New Approach to Flexibility: Managing the Work/Time Equation. (1998). New York, NY.

Catalyst. Flexible Work Arrangements: Establishing Options for Managers and Professionals. (1996). New York, NY.

Catalyst. Flexible Work Arrangements II: Succeeding with Part-Time Options. (1993). New York, NY.

Capowski, Genevieve. The Joy of Flex. Management Review, Vol. 85 (3), (1996): 12-18.

Gappa, Judith & Austin, Ann. Rethinking Faculty Work: Higher Education’s Strategic Imperative.  San Francisco: CA: Jossey-Bass / John Wiley & Sons. 2007.

Kropf, Marcia B. Flexible work options: From policy to practice. Human Resource Magazine, Vol.41 (4) (1996): 88-92.

Rose, Karol. Work/Life flexibility: A key to maximizing productivity. Compensation and Benefits Management, Vol. 14 (4) (1998): 27-32.

Shaw, Lisa. Telecommute! - Go To Work without Leaving Home. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1996.

III. Dual Career Issues

Catalyst. Two Careers, One Marriage: Making it Work in the Workplace. New York, NY. 1998.

Elloy, David F. & Flynn, W. Randolph. Job Involvement and Organization Commitment Among Dual-Income and Single-Income Families: A Multiple-Site study. The Journal of Social Psychology. (1998) P.93-101.

Friedman, Stewart D. and Greenhaus, Jeffery H. Work and Family Allies or Enemies: What Happens when Business Professionals Confront Life Choices. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2001.

Orenstein, Peggy. Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half Changed World. Random House 2000.

Raymon, Paula M. Beyond the Bottom Line. New York, NY: Palgrave. 2001.

Waite, Linda J. & Nielsen, Mark. The Rise of the Dual-Career Family: 1963-1997. (1999). Sloan Working Families Center. Chicago Ill.: University of Chicago. 1998.

Williams, Joan. Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do about It. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2000.

Wisensale, Steven. Family Leave Policy: The Political Economy of Work and Family in America. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. 2001.


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