Managing mayhem : work-life balance in New Zealand / edited by Marilyn Waring & Christa Fouché. - 263 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Margaret Wilson -- Preface / Pauline Winter -- Introduction / Nic Mason & Marilyn Waring -- Whose work and what balance? : Work-life balance in the New Zealand context / Mervyl McPherson & Philippa Reed. Widening the debate about quality flexible work: Men, age and language / Judy McGregor. Do unpaid workers have rights? / Marilyn Waring. Work-life balance: Rhetoric or 'reality'? / Ann Dupuis -- Balancing culture? : Te poi poroiti - the circle of work life for Māori academic women / Fiona Te Momo. Pasifika women's work-life balance / 'Ana Hau'alofa'ia Koloto. Half the sky: An exploration of the work-life balance experience of professional Chinese females in New Zealand / Vivien Wei -- Real people's work and life : Full-time fathers / Nicholas Kildare. Parenting second time around: Achieving work-life-family balance for custodial grandparents / Jill Worrall. When privilege turns to duty: Balancing work-life commitments as an unpaid caregiver / Margaret Brunton ... [et al.]. What next? Women seeking work-life balance by setting up lifestyle businesses / Janet Sayers. Portfolio lives: The work-life balance of artists / Marilyn Waring. Invisible work of partners in compliance for small-business operators / Robyn de Bruin-Judge.

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Work and family--New Zealand
Quality of work life--New Zealand
Minorities--Employment--New Zealand
Social responsibility of business--New Zealand

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