Mother’s Reentry: A Relative Contribution Perspective of Dual-Earner Parents’ Roles, Resources, and Outcomes

Little, Laura M.; Masterson, Courtney R.

doi:10.5465/amj.2019.1344

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“…However, this idea also builds on recent theorizing on the physical, bodily changes that may also make women more vulnerable to critical life events, particularly within this early- to mid-career period (e.g., Grandey et al, 2020 ). Because women may be more vulnerable at work and more involved in childbearing and rearing at this stage than men ( Gersick et al, 2000 ; Grandey et al, 2020 ; Little and Masterson, 2022 ), they are likely more attuned to or affected by critical events, many of which are related to their personal life experiences. Related research supports this idea, because women are also more field dependent than men (i.e., more reactive to external stimuli; Haaken, 1988 ; Martin, 2000 ).…”

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“…Thus, while we focused on individual men and women in our theorizing, it is also possible that the critical events and the subsequent identity-related processes triggered by these events also affect the focal men or women’s partners’ identity salience. While new research by Little and Masterson (2022) considered the direct, indirect, and shared crossover mechanisms of specific critical events (e.g., having a child and returning to work) on organizationally-relevant outcomes grounded in resource- and stress-based theories, sensemaking processes at the partner-level may also facilitate identity-spillover effects among couples (see Crawford et al, 2019 ). Thus, even if critical events more strongly affect women’s identity salience, they may still meaningfully affect women’s partners (often men) and these partners’ identity salience, as well.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The early career phase comprises critical, time-sensitive periods of career development ( Ibarra, 1999 ; Modestino et al, 2019 ), and family formation ( Grandey et al, 2020 ; Little and Masterson, 2022 ). This dynamic period is further shaped by critical events such as receiving a promotion/an award or getting married, which meaningfully affect early career professionals’ identity construction, resilience, and career success ( Ibarra, 1999 ; Blokker et al, 2019 ; Kraimer et al, 2019 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Critical events at critical times? A gendered identity approach on the path to (sustainable) leadership

Gloor

Rehbock²,

Kark³

2023

Front. Psychol.

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The early career phase is a key period of identity maintenance and change. But, it is also ripe with important, attention-grabbing occurrences (i.e., critical events) that may modify these processes, particularly influencing women’s leadership pursuit. Because previous research has overlooked if or how such events might alter identifying or if these processes differ for people who identify as men and women, we integrate the identity and critical events literatures to elaborate on how positive and negative critical events may shape men and women’s identifying in the work- and non-work domains over time. We propose that critical events’ effects on identity salience will occur both within and across domains, but that these effects will be stronger within (vs. across) domains. While both positive and negative events can exert negative effects on subsequent identity salience, we propose that the effects of critical events on identity salience may be stronger for women (vs. men). Finally, we connect work identity salience with subsequent leadership status, including contextual moderators that enhance or undermine these effects (i.e., inclusive organizational climate and mega-threats, respectively). We conclude with theoretical and practical implications of this research, including for workforce efficiency and social sustainability. We also highlight calls for future research stemming from our review [e.g., sustainability critical events and gendered analyses for (more) accurate science] as well as fruitful research areas and innovative practices at the work-non-work interface for professionals on the path to leadership.

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Critical events at critical times? A gendered identity approach on the path to (sustainable) leadership

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Rehbock²,

Kark³

2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…In evaluating research on the three Ms, motherhood has continued to garner the most attention research, with scholars studying how women navigate disclosures associated with pregnancy (e.g., Jones, 2017;Little et al, 2015), organizational support (or lack thereof in the case of pregnancy stigma and discrimination) during pregnancy and reentry after parental leave (e.g., Hackney et al, 2021;Little & Masterson, 2021;Paustian-Underdahl et al, 2019), the impact of interpersonal dynamics at work during pregnancy on postpartum health-and workrelated outcomes (Jones et al, 2020;Jones et al, 2021), and the experiences of new mothers A Call and Research Agenda to Support Well-Being at Work 21 striving to balance work and breastfeeding (Gabriel et al, 2020). While important, it falls short in addressing the experiences of the many working women who are actively trying to conceive a child but have not yet experienced a healthy live birth.…”

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“…Finally, one clear thing is that support needs to come from multiple sources (Jones et al, 2021), and it is of critical importance to delineate (a) what these specific sources of support are (beyond general perceptions; Little & Masterson, 2021), and (b) how these sources of support combine, and if certain combinations are more or less optimal. We consider this latter point in greater detail in our methodological and empirical considerations section, but recognize here that studies taking this route may help shed light on causal pathways that explain how specific organizational sources of support influence outcomes for women and work and at home equally.…”

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Building Thriving Workforces from the Top Down: A Call and Research Agenda for Organizations to Proactively Support Employee Well-Being*

Gabriel¹,

Arena²,

Calderwood³

et al. 2022

Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management

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Organizational researchers studying well-being-as well as organizations themselves-often place much of the burden on employees to manage and preserve their own well-being. Missing from this discussion is how-from a human resources management (HRM) perspectiveorganizations and managers can directly and positively shape the well-being of their employees.We use this review to paint a picture of what organizations could be like if they valued people holistically and embraced the full experience of employees' lives to promote well-being at work.In so doing, we tackle five challenges that managers may have to help their employees navigate, but to date have received more limited empirical and theoretical attention from an HRM perspective: (1) recovery at work; (2) women's health; (3) concealable stigmas; (4) caregiving; and (5) coping with socio-environmental jolts. In each section, we highlight how past research has treated managerial or organizational support on these topics, and pave the way for where research needs to advance from an HRM perspective. We conclude with ideas for tackling these issues methodologically and analytically, highlighting ways to recruit and support more vulnerable samples that are encapsulated within these topics, as well as analytic approaches to study employee experiences more holistically. In sum, our review represents a call for organizations to now-more than ever-build thriving organizations.

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How does work affect fathers' daily interaction with adolescents? An expanded self‐regulation perspective

French,

Liu,

Ohannessian

et al. 2024

J Organ Behavior

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SummaryThe management of the daily rhythm of work and childrearing, two central responsibilities of working fathers, has received limited research attention. Drawing from an expanded self‐regulation perspective, this study seeks to understand the within‐person depletion and compensation mechanisms that explain how fathers' daily work experiences spillover to influence their next‐day parenting interactions. We also posit that actual childrearing support by mothers and its unavailability may shape fathers' day‐to‐day caregiving rhythm by injecting resources and/or cuing demands for father parenting involvement. Using daily triadic data (N = 631 within‐person observations) from 96 fathers, mothers and their adolescent children in the United States, we found that the lagged relationship between fathers' negative work events and next‐day father–adolescent conflict was mediated by fathers' psychological distress. In addition, we found that negative work events were associated with increased father–adolescent routine activities the next day via time‐based work–family conflict, but only when mothers worked the next day. We further found that negative work events were associated with decreased father–adolescent interactive activities the next day via psychological distress, but only when mothers provided less routine care than normal the next day. Our study portrays fathers juggling work and parenting as a sequenced balancing act. Importantly, incorporating mothers' daily work status and routine parent–adolescent interactions enriches our understanding of fathers' daily work‐to‐parenting spillover process.

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Mother’s Reentry: A Relative Contribution Perspective of Dual-Earner Parents’ Roles, Resources, and Outcomes

Cited by 13 publications

References 105 publications

Critical events at critical times? A gendered identity approach on the path to (sustainable) leadership

Critical events at critical times? A gendered identity approach on the path to (sustainable) leadership

Building Thriving Workforces from the Top Down: A Call and Research Agenda for Organizations to Proactively Support Employee Well-Being*

How does work affect fathers' daily interaction with adolescents? An expanded self‐regulation perspective

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