JCU Events
Peoples, Cultures and Careers #2 - The work-family story we’re not telling: insights from overlooked contexts
Research on work and family remains dominated by samples of middle-class, cisgender, heterosexual mothers of young children drawn from Western nations. This dominance has shaped not only empirical knowledge about the prevalence and consequences of work-family conflict, but also the theoretical assumptions underpinning the field; there is an emphasis on individual negotiation, nuclear family arrangements and relatively gender-neutral conceptualizations of work and care. Relatively little attention is paid to the intersecting layers of context influencing people’s work-family experiences and outcomes: global, national, organisational, temporal, and demographic.
In this talk, we will explore what can be learned from research that takes context into greater account when studying work and family. We will review recent research that examines work-family experiences in understudied geographic areas and among understudied populations, and consider questions such as:
- What do “work” and “family” mean in different societies? How are they positioned relative to one another?
- What demands and resources accompany different family and/or household configurations?
- How do structurally gendered workplaces and sociocultural norms impact work and family experiences?
- Why do workers aspire to a ‘balance’ between work and family and how do they pursue it?
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Agenda:
Introduction by Professor Eddy Ng
Presentation by Professor Alexandra Beauregard
Q&A session
End of event
Host/Moderator
 | Professor Eddy Ng Professor Ng is a Visiting Professor of Organisational Behaviour. His research focuses on managing diversity for organizational competitiveness, the changing nature of work and organizations, and managing across generations. His work has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grants. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and a Co-Editor for Personnel Review. Prior to academia, he spent 7 years with the TD Bank Financial Group. |
Speaker
 | Professor Alexandra Beauregard Alexandra Beauregard joined Birkbeck Business School in the summer of 2018. Prior to arriving at Birkbeck, Alexandra was Associate Professor in Human Resource Management at Middlesex University Business School, Assistant Professor in Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour at the London School of Economics' Department of Management, and Lecturer in Management (Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management) at the University of Surrey's Business School. She has also worked in social policy positions in the Government of Canada's Department of Industry, Department of Citizenship and Immigration, and the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
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