4. Customizing Careers By Opting Out Or Shifting Jobs: Dual-Earners Seeking Life-Course “Fit”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Evidence of the Worker and Workplace Mismatch 1
6. Part 1. Twenty-First-Century Workers and Family Life
7. 1. The Long Reach of the Job: Employment and Time for Family Life 17
8. 2. Multitasking among Working Families: A Strategy for Dealing with the Time Squeeze 43
9. 3. Coming Together at Dinner: A Study of Working Families 57
10. Part 2. The Misfit Between Old Workplaces And A New Workforce
11. 4. Customizing Careers By Opting Out Or Shifting Jobs: Dual-Earners Seeking Life-Course “Fit” 73
12. 5. Keeping Engaged Parents On The Road To Success 95
13. 6. Elderly Labor Supply: Work Or Play? 110
14. Part 3. Workplace Flexibility: Voluntary Employer Practices In The United States
15. 7. Employer-Provided Workplace Flexibility 131
16. 8. Will The Real Family-Friendly Employer Please Stand Up: Who Permits Work Hour Reductions For Childcare? 157
17. 9. Workplace Flexibility For Federal Civilian Employees 178
18. 10. The Odd Disconnect: Our Family-Hostile Public Policy Joan C. Williams 196
19. Part 4. Workplace Flexibility: Practices From Abroad
20. 11. Limiting Working Time And Supporting Flexibility For Employees: Public Policy Lessons From Europe 223
21. 12. Parents’ Experiences Of Flexible Work Arrangements In Changing European Workplaces 245
22. 13. Work Hours Mismatch In The United States And Australia 262
23. 14. Renewed Energy For Change: Government Policies Supporting Workplace Flexibility In Australia 276
24. 15. Flexible Employment And The Introduction Of Work-Life Balance Programs In Japan 303
25. 16. Government Policies Supporting Workplace Flexibility: The State Of Play In Japan 317
26. Conclusions: Solving The Workplace/Workforce Mismatch 337
27. Notes 351
28. References 365
29. Contributors 393
30. Index 399