Social, economic and demographic forces, fuelling new efforts to recruit, retain and develop women in the workforce, are examined. Transnational perspectives and policies such as “parental leave” and “career breaks” are explored, with particular reference to differing attitudes in...

Despite a wealth of research and policy initiatives on “work‐family”, “work‐life balance” or what we prefer to call work‐personal life integration, societies seem stuck about how to make equitable, satisfactory and sustainable changes in the ways in which paid work can be combined...