Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/11159/669174
Book title: 
Working Women in the Sandwich Generation: Theories, Tools and Recommendations for Supporting Women's Working Lives
ISBN: 
978-1-80262-501-1
Document Type: 
Book Part
Place of Publication and Publisher: 
Emerald Publishing Limited
Year of Publication: 
2022
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Abstract: 
Drawing on in-depth interviews with 34 women and men of the working sandwich generation (WSG) in Flanders, this chapter presents a taxonomy of nine coping strategies that the WSG uses to balance intergenerational care with a job: an acceptance strategy, a boundary management strategy, a help-seeking strategy, a planning strategy, a governance strategy, a self-care strategy, a time focus strategy, a values strategy and a super-sandwich strategy. Individuals of the WSG do not use just one strategy, but combine different strategies simultaneously or consecutively. Moreover, different strategies are also strongly linked to each other so that there is a certain degree of ‘overlap’.
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Language: 
English (eng)
Citation: 
In: Working Women in the Sandwich Generation: Theories, Tools and Recommendations for Supporting Women's Working Lives (2022). Emerald Publishing Limited, S. 13 - 30.
https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80262-501-120221002.
doi:10.1108/978-1-80262-501-120221002.

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