Justice and work-family conflict
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In recent years, scholars and activists have sought to make workplaces friendlier for employees with family responsibilities. Are such workplace changes requirements of justice, and if so, why? I argue that we should make these changes because lifestyles that mix work and family are valuable, and such lifestyles are harder to come by than they would have been if not for our history of gender injustice. The latter point, I claim, licenses an exception to the general liberal ban on promoting particular lifestyles. This exception is needed to make good on the promise of equal citizenship for women. My argument contrasts with the more familiar one that justifies family-friendly workplace policies because they further the equal representation of women in employment. The familiar argument falls short in two ways. First, there evidence that family-friendly workplace policies sometimes exacerbate the gendered division of labor (because women use them more than men). Secondly, achieving gender proportionality across social roles does not require changing those roles. If there is, in fact, a justice-based rationale for improving the fit between work and family life, we need one that appeals directly to the value of a mixed life and does not piggyback on the also worthy goal of ending the gendered division of labor. That is what I provide in this dissertation.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Mrsny, Sara Erbes |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Satz, Debra |
| Thesis advisor | Satz, Debra |
| Thesis advisor | Bidadanure, Juliana |
| Thesis advisor | Cohen, Joshua, 1951- |
| Degree committee member | Bidadanure, Juliana |
| Degree committee member | Cohen, Joshua, 1951- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Philosophy. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Sara Erbes Mrsny. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Philosophy. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Sara Erbes Mrsny
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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