Nine Months and Counting

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-54
Author(s):  
Jamie Ladge ◽  
Danna Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Woman ◽  
Psychological Adjustment ◽  
Maternity Leave ◽  
Working Mother

Chapter 2 explores the foundations of working motherhood as women become pregnant and begin to negotiate professional and mothering roles as they disclose their pregnancies at work and prepare for maternity leave. We discuss three significant adjustments most women experience as they begin to integrate pregnancy and work. The first is a psychological adjustment that starts as a pregnant woman begins to envision her future identity as a working mother. The second adjustment is a physical one that stems from how a woman copes with her changing body in the workplace. The last adjustment is an interpersonal one and relates to how a pregnant woman manages interactions with her boss and her colleagues. We explore various ways women navigate these adjustments and how they set women up for positively integrating work and motherhood.

scholarly journals Women Can’t Have It All: Benevolent Sexism Predicts Attitudes Toward Working (vs. Stay-at-Home) Mothers

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Szastok ◽  
Małgorzata Kossowska ◽  
Joanna Pyrkosz-Pacyna
Keyword(s):  
Maternity Leave ◽  
Ambivalent Sexism ◽  
Benevolent Sexism ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Hostile Sexism ◽  
Positive Perception ◽  
Working Mother ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
The Status ◽  
At Home

The aim of the present paper was to test differences in perceptions towards a woman who took a 3-month maternity leave (a working mother) as opposed to a 3-year maternity leave (a stay-at-home mother), and then to apply the ambivalent sexism theory to predict those differences. We expected that in Poland, where motherhood is highly appreciated, it is especially benevolent (not hostile) sexism that predicts less positive attitudes toward working mothers, compared to stay-at-home mothers. In two studies, we found that the working mother was perceived as less warm, less effective as a parent and less interpersonally appealing and more successful at work. Additionally, although the stay-at-home mother was evaluated as less successful at work, she was not perceived as less competent. We discuss this as a reflection of the “Mother-Pole” phenomenon, where mothers in Poland are perceived as not only kind, but also competent. Afterward, we showed that benevolent (but not hostile) sexism predicts differences in perceiving the stay-at-home mother and working mother. Participants higher in benevolent sexism rated the stay-at-home mother as warmer, more parenting-effective and more interpersonally appealing compared to the working mother, while participants lower in benevolent sexism perceived them equally well. Studies suggest that benevolent sexism predicts a more positive perception of traditional mothers (as opposed to nontraditional mothers), and at the same time, maintains the status quo of traditional gender relations.

Effects of Employee Performance on the Implementation of Total Quality Management

2022 ◽  
pp. 175-194
Author(s):  
Nur Aqilah Adilah Hj Abd Rahman ◽  
Heru Susanto
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Total Quality Management ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Working Mothers ◽  
Maternity Leave ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Organization Performance ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Working Mother ◽  
Work Family

Mother is a person who has many task and responsibilities daily. In addition, as a working mother, tasks and responsibilities are double and triple, for instance task and chores at home and task at the organization. Total quality management is practices and procedures that organizations use in order to enhance or improve the performance of the employee or the organization. Performance of working mothers is said to be not satisfactory, and their performance may drop after having babies. Some organizations and their colleagues don't seem to be helpful to working mothers after rejoining the workforce right after maternity leave ended. Some organization from other countries provide work-family support policies in order to help these working mothers to balance their lifestyle as mother and as an employee. Some researchers claimed that working mothers tend to have very happy children whilst underperforming in the organization. This chapter seeks to investigate the perception of working mothers on their performance after the implementation of total quality management.

Becoming a Working Mother

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-80
Author(s):  
Jamie Ladge ◽  
Danna Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Return To Work ◽  
Working Mothers ◽  
Maternity Leave ◽  
Postnatal Period ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
New Mothers ◽  
Working Mother ◽  
Work Period ◽  
Initial Return ◽  
At Home

Chapter 3 covers the transition to the postnatal period. We focus first on the experience of maternity leave and some of the factors that help and hinder new mothers in the process of becoming confident about being good mothers. We consider the varied ways women go about managing their maternity leave both in terms of work and at home and the questions to ask oneself about how to best manage this time given one’s own work and family circumstances. We then turn our attention to the initial return-to-work period. We explore how women can work with their managers, their partners, and caregivers to establish new routines at work and at home that support their new lives as working mothers.

scholarly journals Fatherhood is as Important as Motherhood

1970 ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Lebanese American University
Keyword(s):  
Maternity Leave ◽  
Working Mother ◽  
The Family ◽  
One Year

Egypt is involved in a dialogue on the concepts of childhood and motherhood while fatherhood remains neglected. The dialogue proposes that a working mother should be given a maternity leave with full salary for one year or a full leave with half salary for a number of years in order to raise the family.

The Rh-sensitized pregnant woman

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 196 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-172
Author(s):  
H. Schulman
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Woman

Psychological Adjustment of Melanoma Survivors

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 172-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Hamama-Raz ◽  
Z. Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Malignant Melanoma ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Psychological Adjustment ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Cognitive Appraisal ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Personal Resources ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Ample Evidence

The study examines the contributions of hardiness, attachment style, and cognitive appraisal to the psychological adjustment of 300 survivors of malignant melanoma: The findings show that the survivors' adjustment is by far better predicted by their personal resources and cognitive appraisal than by their sociodemographic features (with the exception of marital status) and features of their illness. Of all the variables, their adjustment was best predicted by their attachment style, with secure attachment making for greater well-being and less distress. These findings add to the ample evidence that personal resources help persons to cope with stressful or traumatic events.

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