Sustainability in Combining Career and Care (Journal of Social Issues, 68-4)

In this special issue on Sustainability in Combining Career andCare, eight empirical studies following from an integrativeframework address normative beliefs about parenting, "choices" incombining work and family, and outcomes for individual careers,couples, and children. Offers an integrative framework for understanding andchanging the effects of normative beliefs about parenting on"choices" at the work-family interface and on outcomes for careers,couple and children.Highlights a wide range of multi-method studies of thework-family interface from multiple countries.Employs a micro-, meso-, and macro-level perspective oncreating and promoting sustainability in combining career andcare.Sheds a new light on popular misconceptions and stereotypereproductions in the media about the challenges, choices, andconsequences of combining career and care for workingparents.Posits an innovative process model for changing normativebeliefs about parenting and career success: The "Triple-N Model" of(1) Nominating Norms, (2) Navigating Norms (3) and creating New,No-nonsense Norms.