Working women in the sandwich generation : theories, tools and recommendations for supporting women's working lives

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Women more often than men take care of their ageing relatives together with their own children or grandchildren. These Sandwich Generation (SG) women constitute an expanding vulnerable group on the labour market at h...

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Main Authors Rajahonka, Mervi (Author), Kwiatkowska-Ciotucha, Dorota (Author), Timmers, Miet (Author), Załuska, Urszula (Author), Villman, Kaija (Author), Lengeler, Veerle (Author), Gielens, Tim (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
SeriesEmerald points.
Subjects
Working mothers > Europe.
Sandwich generation > Europe.
Aging parents > Care > Europe.
Work and family > Europe.
Women > Employment > Europe.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781802625035
DOI10.1108/9781802625011
Physical Description1 online resource (156 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Mervi Rajahonka, Dorota Kwiatkowska-Ciotucha, Miet Timmers, Urszula Zaluska, and Kaija Villman
  • Part a. Theories
  • Chapter1. How do they manage? Coping strategies of the working sandwich generation in flanders / Miet Timmers and Veerle Lengeler
  • Chapter 2. 45+ Polish women at home and in the labour markets / Dorota Kwiatkowska-Ciotucha and Urszula Zaluska
  • Chapter 3. Sandwich generation women in search for meaningful work and life / Mervi Rajahonka and Kaija Villman
  • Part b. Tools and cases
  • Chapter 4. Family supportive supervisors behaviour for the sandwich generation: Considerations for training practice / Miet Timmers and Tim Gielens
  • Chapter 5. Tools developed in and lessons learned from the time4help project in Poland / Dorota Kwiatkowska-Ciotucha and Urszula Zaluska
  • Chapter 6. Cases and lessons learned from the 'time4help' project in Finland / Kaija Villman and Mervi Rajahonka
  • Part c. International comparative research
  • Chapter 7. Sandwich generation in the workplace - international comparative research / Dorota Kwiatkowska-Ciotucha and Urszula Zaluska
  • Part d. Conclusion
  • Chapter 8. Discussion, conclusion and recommendations / Mervi Rajahonka, Dorota Kwiatkowska-Ciotucha, Miet Timmers, Urszula Zaluska, and Kaija Villman.

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