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Expanding Conceptualizations of Work/Life in Higher Education: Looking Outside the Academy to Develop a Better Understanding Within

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Over the last two decades, work/life balance has come to occupy an increasingly important place in the higher education literature. Research has focused on policy development and usage, demographic shifts, and cultural acceptance of faculty efforts at both the meso and macro organizational levels to maintain a balance between work and family. Research in higher education has developed alongside work/family research in other disciplines, sometimes incorporating important tenets, but leaving others out. In particular, the literature has yet to integrate new frameworks from organizational studies and psychology or adopt a critical stance promoted in the literature on gendered organizations. Additionally, faculty parents remain the primary target of work/life research, neglecting the concerns of non-parenting faculty as well as all staff and students. The purpose of this chapter is to present and critique the work/life literature in higher education, introducing literature from organizational studies and psychology to illustrate how the field has built upon research from other disciplines as well as overlooked critical areas of scholarship. The chapter concludes with a set of recommendations to push the boundaries of work/life scholarship forward to generate new insights and help create a more equitable academy for all who populate it.

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    In this chapter, we distinguish between work /family and work /life as two separate but interrelated concepts. Work/family refers to the balance between one’s job and family responsibilities while work /life considers family as well as other aspects of one’s life outside of work . As we discuss, the majority of scholarship in higher education focuses on work /family concerns. We describe any definitional confusion in the literature throughout the chapter.

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Sallee, M., Lester, J. (2017). Expanding Conceptualizations of Work/Life in Higher Education: Looking Outside the Academy to Develop a Better Understanding Within. In: Paulsen, M. (eds) Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, vol 32. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48983-4_8

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