Standpoints of Maternity Leave: Discourses of Temporality and Ability

Care of Children With Disabilities in Rural Areas: Meanings and Impact on Everyday life and Health. Study Protocol

“…Usually, the birth of a child implies important changes in the daily lives of their parents (Buzzanell et al, 2017). The challenge of adapting the family's occupational routines will be much more significant when the child has some type of disability (Cankurtaran Ö ntaş & Tekindal, 2016;Larson, 2010;McCann et al, 2012), since parents will have to provide support of greater or lesser intensity and temporality in such aspects as activities of daily living (especially food and hygiene), transport, communication, playing, or social participation (Bourke-Taylor et al, 2010;Ranehov & Håkansson, 2018).…”

Predictors and Outcomes of U.S. Quality Maternity Leave: A Review and Conceptual Framework

“…Dominant narratives in the United States position paid labor as more valuable and important than other kinds of labor, especially those that involve unpaid caregiving work. The United States and many organizations do not provide opportunities for paid caregiving work, including maternity leave, which provides the metacommunication that caregiving work is incompatible with corporate employment and undervalued in the United States (Buzzanell et al, 2017;Shuffelton, 2013).…”

“…Income is a significant predictor of mothers' experiences of QML because of its relevance to accessing resources including childcare (Ulker & Guven, 2011). Low-income working mothers are often ineligible for FMLA and organizational maternity leave policies, especially paid leave (Buzzanell et al, 2017;Shepherd-Banigan & Bell, 2014). For low-income mothers, FMLA provisions are inadequate because there is no mandated wage replacement, which typically results in mothers not taking leave or cutting their leave short (Andres, 2015).…”

“…These concerns are likely valid because many scholars have found that when women become pregnant or utilize family-friendly policies, including maternity leave, they are viewed as less work-oriented or competent (Cuddy et al, 2004). Mothers may feel pressured to continue working later into their pregnancy or to do the same job duties to maintain perceptions of competency, which may result in them not experiencing QML (Buzzanell et al, 2017). For example, scholars have found that women who had fewer traditional attitudes toward parenting and gender roles (e.g., believing that women should stay at home) planned to work later into their pregnancies and return to work sooner postnatally (Fox & Quinn, 2015;Lyness et al, 1999).…”

A partial test of the Strong Black Woman Collective Theory

“…Although standpoints focus on group members' understandings of their societal positions, contemporary standpoint scholars assert, "group members' ways of knowing are not and cannot be uniform because of the different circumstances in which individuals live and work" (Buzzanell, 2015, p. 771). At one point in time, the idea of a collective standpoint was accepted, but now scholars do not believe all members of a particular social group have a universally shared standpoint (Buzzanell et al, 2016;Intemann, 2004). Under this new rubric, Black women have different social locations, which differentially shape their experiences, knowledge, and critical perspective of the world.…”