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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"maternity leave"”.
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Effects Of Paid Maternity Leave On The Gender Wage Gap
… are more likely to interrupt their careers or leave the labor force entirely as a result. This thesis uses a fixed-effects model using a panel dataset of 18 countries with observations from 2000 to 2010 to evaluate whether paid maternity leave has an effect on the breadth of the gender wage …
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Clergywomen and Role Management: A Study of PC(USA) Clergywomen Negotiating Maternity Leave
… the experience of 12 clergywomen who negotiated maternity leave with their congregations and the implications of that process on how they understood and managed their roles as mothers and pastors. The result is a model for role management through the process of negotiating maternity leave which …
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Examination of Perceptions of Procedural Justice When Establishing a Maternity Leave Policy in a University Setting
… As more women enter the workforce, the issue of maternity leave is also becoming more prevalent. More and more women are working in professional fields and don't want to end their careers in order to have and raise children. In this current study the researcher has combined the issues of …
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Examining Mothers' Return-to-Work Experiences Following Maternity Leave and the Perceived Impact on Their Careers
… MOTHERS’ RETURN-TO-WORK EXPERIENCES FOLLOWING MATERNITY LEAVE AND THE PERCEIVED IMPACT ON THEIR CAREERS Rebecca Clanton Marsha Richardson As more women attempt to balance their careers with family life, those returning to work from maternity leave in the United States confront significant …
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Experiences Of Female Faculty With Maternity Leave At Four-Year Universities In An Upper Midwest State
… explore female faculty members' experiences with maternity leave, while working as a career academic in higher education. Participants consisted of women currently employed in an upper Midwest state at six four-year institutions. An online survey was completed by 121 women, and 30 of these women …
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Perceptions and reflections of mothers' working lives: narratives from women on their second, or subsequent, maternity leave.
… Of specific interest was the importance of maternity leave to career which is treated by academics and organisations alike - as a period of absence. Furthermore, all maternity leave periods are considered equivalent. Feminist epistemological frameworks, drawing on psychological …
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Maternity Leave Policy in U.S. Police Departments and School Districts: The impact of descriptive and social group representation in a context of gendered institutions
United States federal law regulating leaves of absence for maternity-related purposes pales in comparison to other nations' policies, an observation only recently receiving attention from political scientists. Providing an understanding of how maternity leave is handled by individual organizations …
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Do people only work for money? : preferences of monetary and non-monetary benefits of employees of Landsbankinn hf.
… introducing an additional grant for employees in maternity leave on the willingness to take full maternity leave was explored. The findings suggest that non-monetary benefits were generally more valued with the employees at Landsbankinn hf. Differences were also found in preference for benefits …
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Family-friendly workplace policies in the United States: Associations with maternal and child health
… worldwide, the U.S. does not guarantee paid leave to employed women who give birth, and the 12 weeks of unpaid leave provided under the Family and Medical Leave Act falls far short of most industrialized nations. This dissertation examines the associations between family-friendly workplace …
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Women returning to work: what can we learn from mothers’ stories about 'keeping in touch days' during maternity leave? A narrative inquiry to aid the development of relevant psychotherapeutic approaches
… way for women to return to work following their maternity and they are optional for both the company and the mother (United Kingdom Government, 2006c). Both parties must agree to them in advance of their use. Pilot doctoral research conducted by Hampson (2021) indicated that the KIT Days were not …
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Coaching through maternity transitions: through the prism of coaching, how can women going through the maternity transitions in the private equity industry be better supported?
… opportunities. It has been identified that maternity is a point of inflexion in the careers of women, with those not returning or changing roles impacting the pipeline of women into senior roles. One of the solutions to this problem is to offer women maternity coaching with an external …
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Returning to work after childbirth : an exploration of mothers’ experiences in the United Kingdom
… relating to mothers returning to work after maternity leave has focused upon the individual aspects of women’s experiences such as the impact on their career progression, and on their pay, and studies that centre around gender roles and how women balance their home life and motherhood. …
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Three Essays On Early Childhood Development In Chile
… exogenous variation on the timing at which a maternity leave extension reform was implemented to estimate the causal effect of additional weeks of maternity leave on breastfeeding duration in Chile. By using data from the Chilean Longitudinal Survey of Early Childhood (ELPI), I find that …
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Essays in applied microeconomics
… In the first, I study a recent extension of the maternity leave mandate for public sector employees. In the second, I focus on the gender differential in housework hours and its evolution in the 2001-2009 period. For the maternity leave part, identification relies on geographical and temporal …
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The role of identity integration for the career commitment and managerial aspirations of first-time mothers: Examining antecedents, mechanisms, and moderators
… also examine in depth whether the length of the maternity leave that new mothers take serves as a temporal resource that affects working mothers’ identity integration. I also consider the influences of support from both family and workplace others. I developed an identity integration scale for …
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Organisational support throughout the maternity journey : the perceptions of female academics in selected UK universities
… support afforded to them during their maternity journey whilst working in UK universities. Despite the fact that women represent nearly half of all Higher Education (HE) academic staff, they continue to be significantly underrepresented within more senior academic positions, in …
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Becoming Someone Different: A Grounded Theory Study of How Nurses Integrate Pregnancy and Full Time Employment
… nurses began to focus on their eventual maternity leave and working as long as possible up to the time of delivery in order to prolong that maternity leave.</p>
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Exploring managers' and supervisors' experiences of supporting breastfeeding at work: A qualitative study among clothing factory workers in South Africa
… Africa. Return to full-time employment after maternity leave is the leading cause affecting mothers' breastfeeding decisions. A qualitative, exploratory research design was used. Secondary qualitative data from 17 in-depth semi-structured interviews with supervisors and managers were analysed …
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"I can't be a parent if I'm not there": Investigating how leave shapes parental identity experience among female same‐sex parents
This research explores how leave affected ten female same-sex parents’ experience of their parental identity. Semi-structured interviews with all participants and semi-structured two-week diaries (diary-interview method (DIM)) with four participants who were currently within their leave …
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