Contents Foreword Patrice Buzzanell Introduction Elizabeth Fish Hatfield Crafting the Modern Ideal Worker Chapter 1 The ideal teleworker: A critique of ideal-worker constructions in a nonstandard work environment Millie A. Harrison Chapter 2 What work-life balance? Ohio welfare to work program managers' focus on paid work Tiffany Taylor, Katrina Bloch, and Brianna Turgeon Chapter 3 Putting your career first: Forbes' guilt-free working mom Samantha Szczur Having It All in a Culture of Competing Demands Chapter 4 Freedom with limits: Communication, work-life balance and the "mompreneur" Cara Jacocks Chapter 5 Opting (back) in to paid work: A capitalist, gendered, classed, careerist analysis Erika L. Kirby with Timothy Kuhn, M. Chad McBride, George F. (Guy) McHendry, Jr., Rebecca J. Meisenbach, Robyn V. Remke, and Stacey M. B. Wieland Chapter 6 Innovative career-life initiatives for women faculty in STEM: A content analysis of funded NSF ADVANCE STEM Institutional Transformation proposals Elizabeth Tolman and Amanda Macht Jantzer Chapter 7 It's about priorities: Adaptation strategies of dual military couples David G. Smith Gender Roles at Home in a Dual Earner Society Chapter 8 "There's a thousand invisible things I do around here": Examining mothers' roles in the gendered division of labor on sitcoms Elizabeth Fish Hatfield Chapter 9 Work-family balance and immigrant Sub-Saharan women in the United States Gladys Muasya Chapter 10 Uncovering pathways to support for family relocation: The gendered influence of the divisions of housework and perceptions of fairness Shannon N. Davis, Julia Anderson, and Shannon K. Jacobsen Defining Work-Life Balance Beyond Mothers Chapter 11 Social stigma, child-free identities, and work-life balance Jessica M. Rick and Rebecca J. Meisenbach Chapter 12 Tracing the Daddy Wars: The emergence of dad culture and the prioritization of work-life balance Elizabeth Fish Hatfield and Katherine Hampsten Chapter 13 Paternity leave, identity and fatherhood Scott Sellnow-Richmond and Loraleigh Keashley About the Editor and Contributors