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Golden, Marissa. "The Roles of Family-Friendly Workplace Policies and Work-Hour Culture in the Lives of Professional Mothers" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA, Jul 31, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p241091_index.html>

Golden, M. M. , 2008-07-31 "The Roles of Family-Friendly Workplace Policies and Work-Hour Culture in the Lives of Professional Mothers" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p241091_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: This paper focuses on a unique occupational setting to examine the impact that work/family policies have on the lives of professional mothers. The occupational setting � the federal civil service -- is unique in two respects: first in the widespread availability of a wide range of work/family policies and second in its work-hour culture which rests heavily on a traditional forty-hour work-week. The paper utilizes interviews with thirty female civil servants to document their policy usage and to describe what these women use the policies for. The paper�s contribution lies in identifying a setting where policy usage is widespread (at least among professional mothers) and where this usage enables these women to maintain the work/family balance they seek. This suggests that some refinements may be needed to a body of literature that has focused primarily on the limits of family-friendly workplace policies (e.g., Blair-Loy and Wharton 2004; Epstein et al. 1999; Fried 1998; Wharton and Blair-Loy 2002) and a second body of literature that has depicted professional mothers as being driven out of the workforce due to the lack of supportive work environments (e.g. Stone 2007). In sum, the paper presented here tells an encouraging story about how federal family-friendly workplace policies enable the women studied here to �have it all.�

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