Work-life balance: Workplace norms and practices For three decades, journalists and academics have documented the rise of workplace norms and practices that hamper employees’ ability to balance work and life outside work (Venkatesh and Vitalari, 1992; King, 1997; Jacobs and Gerson, 2004; Correll, Kelly, O’Connor, and Williams, 2014; Pedulla and Thébaud, 2015; Kelly and Moen, 2020). [...] The male ideal-worker belief creates the expectation that employees are available at all hours and on all days, and the practices that reflect and reinforce this expectation, such as valuing “face time,” scheduling meetings late in the day, assigning tasks to be done overnight or on the weekend, and sending messages around the clock (Perlow, 2012; Boushey, 2016; Padavic, Ely, and Reid, 2020). [...] Female workers bear more of the burden of domestic labor than their male counterparts, and workers in the 10 middle of the age range are the most likely to have children who need the most care and supervision. [...] As a result, female workers in the middle of the age range are more likely to bear the burden of domestic labor, compared with their younger and older female colleagues and with their male colleagues in the middle of the age range. [...] While younger and older women have to juggle the demands of work and family life more than their same-age male 33 counterparts, it is women in the middle of the age range who are likely to bear the heaviest child-care burden.
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