Rosanna Hertz, author of
Working Familes and
More Equal than Others; Luella LaMer Professor, Wellesley College, Departments of Sociology and Women's Studies, Chair of Women's Studies:
"It's About Time tells a story about the multiple ways we all struggle to organize our lives, the inequities and challenges we face over our life course, the gendered interdependency between partners as they make critical decisions, and the need for policies to reflect these new realities. This collection sets the agenda for a fresh examination of work/family research."
"This impressive and well-edited volume presents findings and implications of a major study on work-family interface by the Cornell University Careers Institute. The study, which was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, focuses on middle-class, dual earner households and how they manage their two work lives and their combined family life.... Summing Up: Highly recommended."
Lotte Bailyn, T. Wilson Professor in Management, Sloan School of Management, MIT:
"I am a great admirer of Phyllis Moen's life-course perspective and the work of the Cornell Center. This book confirms that the Couples Study has produced important new insights."
Mary Blair-Loy:
"This volume presents findings from the Cornell Couples and Careers Study, a study of dual career, middle class couples in upstate New York, directed by Phyllis Moen. The book stands out in the work-family research field for several reasons. These include the comprehensive look at couples' linked work and family careers and the inclusions of understudied topics such as same-sex couples, spouses' relocation decisions, and religious participation. The book contributes to the areas of careers, labor markets, organizations, gender, family, the life course, and work-family policy."
Madonna Harrington Meyer, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University:
"It's about time someone wrote this book! It provides a glimpse we have never before had into how real couples function on a daily basis."
Suzanne M. Bianchi:
"Moen and other authors in the volume assert that families have changed extensively while work settings have changed little, resulting in a 'cultural lag' or 'mismatch' between what working families need to meet their care-giving responsibilities and what work organizations demand of workers.... A strength of the volume is its comprehensive set of topics. The chapters cover not only standard topics in the field, such as work hours, work preferences, and parenting, but also commuting, technology, and the 'spillover' of work to family life and vice versa, topics much less often included in work and family volumes."
"Chapters cover such topics as work-hour strategies..., competing clocks, timing parenthood, journey to work, managing households, turning points in work careers, factors that predict success, prioritizing careers, the new technology climate and the rise of telecommuting, alternative employment arrangements, moving toward retirement..., the case of same-sex couples, work-life integration, and family-friendly policies."
Arne L. Kalleberg, Kenan Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
"This timely, multidisciplinary book uses data from an innovative project on working couples' careers to address various dimensions of a major contemporary challenge: alleviating the mismatch between working families' needs and the institutions of work and family."
