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Times are changing for Americans in the workplace and at home. The US workforce not only looks different today than it did three decades ago as a result of increased participation by women — but it is also different in more subtle, less visible ways. In this chapter, we identify emerging trends showing that women are, for the first time, on a par with men in their desire to advance to jobs with more responsibility, while converging gender roles at work and at home have left men experiencing more work-family conflict than women.
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Galinsky, E., Aumann, K., Bond, J.T. (2013). Times are Changing: Gender and Generation at Work and at Home in the USA. In: Poelmans, S., Greenhaus, J.H., Maestro, M.L.H. (eds) Expanding the Boundaries of Work-Family Research. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137006004_13
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