Work-Family Policies and the Avoidance of Bias Against Caregiving

The Changing Realities of Work and Family: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 43-66

  Drago, Robert ^a,b   Colbeck, Carol ^a,b   Hollenshead, Carol ^a,b   Sullivan, Beth ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

"bias avoidance" behaviors among academic; Academic workplace changes and BA behavior elimination and gender equity; BA behaviors productive and unproductive; bias avoidance and gender and bias avoidance (BA) strategies; Faculty Work Family Policy Study and University of Michigan's Center for the Education of Women (CEW); Work family policies and caregiving bias avoidance; Work family policies and employee behavior; Work family policies associated with reduced levels of bias avoidance behaviors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888183555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444305272.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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