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Work-family balance among dual-career parents: defining the desirable

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posted on 2017-06-08, 00:38 authored by McLean, Jill, Lindorff, Margaret
The meaning of work-family balance was explored with twenty parents from dual-career families using semi-structured interviews. The findings suggest that, for such individuals, work-family balance may be defined as a state in which a range of needs are met by allocating time to both work and family roles according to a combination of individual priorities and the demands of work and family. However, these individual priorities are affected by gender. The absence of work-family conflict appears to be a common, but not an essential, characteristic of work-family balance. Thus work-family balance can be viewed as a matrix that comprises a work-family conflict/no conflict continuum and a work-family balance/imbalance continuum.

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2000

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Working paper series (Monash University. Department of Management).

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