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Work-Life Effectiveness
The document discusses work/life effectiveness, emphasizing the importance of integrating personal and professional responsibilities while setting boundaries and aligning priorities with values. It highlights barriers such as rigid workplaces, gender biases, and the gender pay gap, along with ways to manage these challenges by prioritizing needs, seeking progressive employers, and building support networks. Key resources and research on the topic are also mentioned in the appendix.
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- 1. Archery Club MARCH 2017 Work/LifeEffectiveness
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- 4. A coherent, sustainable, and satisfying way of integrating your personal and professional responsibilities and interests.
- 5. Work/life effectiveness… • Notjust a scheduling issue… • Acknowledging and integrating all the roles you play • Aligning your priorities with your values • Setting boundaries
- 6. What gets inthe way?
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- 8. Contradictory or irreconsilableaspirations
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- 10. Deeply ingrained genderbiases
- 11. Gender pay gapby age Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, reported in U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Highlights of Women’s Earnings in 2015, Table 1
- 12. Why the gapwidens… • The career costs of “temporal flexibility” • The (gendered) stigma of “special treatment” • The too high/too low cost of child and eldercare • Unequal access to even the most basic work/life accommodations & opportunities
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- 14. How to manage 1.Get serious about your priorities Put it on paper, map out the trade-offs, be honest about your needs 2. Seek progressive employers Look for explicit policies, women in leadership, cultural cues 3. Do the math Factor in short term gains and effects on future earning potential 4. Cultivate allies and be an ally Support everyone’s work/life goals, be an example for others
- 15. Appendix • Claudia Goldin’sresearch: • Freakonomics Radio interview • Anne Marie Slaughter • "Unfinished Business" book review NY Times • “Why Women Still Can't Have It All” • The Simple Truth About the Gender Pay Gap (AAUW)