Work/life balance: you can't get there from here

Article Abstract:

In this article, I contend that the well-intentioned discourse of work/life balance in the popular and scholarly press actually may undermine women's and men's attempts to live fulfilling lives. Drawing on feminist and critical perspectives, as well as my own efforts to find "balance" in a two-career family with two children under the age of 4, I illustrate (a) how the work/life discourse reflects the individualism, achievement orientation, and instrumental rationality that is fundamental to modern bureaucratic thought and action and (b) how such discourse may further entrench people in the work/life imbalance that they are trying to escape. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Analysis, Quality of life, Dual-career families

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Work/life balance:you can't get there from here

Article Abstract:

The well-intentioned efforts of work/life balance in the scholarly and popular press undermines women's and men's attempts to live fulfilling lives. The critical perspective on work/life balance and the ways of thinking about this balance is illustrated.

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A response to Joan Kofodimos

Article Abstract:

The way in which the search for mastery results in negative consequences for individual and organizational well-being is explained. Kofodimos's research is described to have changed the life of many men, women, children and organizations.

Authors, Writers, Criticism and interpretation, Kofodimos, Joan

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