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DESCRIPTION:<a href="https://strathmore.edu/">3rd Annual Family Research Co
 nference</a>\nIntroduction: Dual-earner households are now the norm across
  urban and peri-urban Kenya. Yet\, public discourse still treats work and 
 family as separate worlds. One is public and demanding. The other is priva
 te and secondary. New research involving 41 working parents suggests this 
 picture is wrong on every count. Many working parents are not failing to b
 alance two domains. Instead\, they are absorbing the cost of a legal and i
 nstitutional system that was never built to recognise the two as connected
  at all. Work itself\, the research finds\, does not sit neutrally alongsi
 de family life. These findings unfold across four connected themes. First\
 , the work-family binary itself does not hold as a stable\, shared frame. 
 Participants hold plural\, sometimes contradictory theories of whether wor
 k and family are even separable. Second\, where the ideal of balance persi
 sts\, parents and spouses often internalise their failure to reach it as p
 ersonal. Structural conditions\, constant digital connectivity\, unsupport
 ed remote and hybrid arrangements\, transfer\, hiring\, pay and posting po
 licies indifferent to caregiving\, understaffing\, and thinning social sup
 port\, are converted into private narratives of inadequacy. Third\, the re
 search traces this displacement to its legal root: employment law’s thin
 \, transactional conception of work which fails to recognise the relations
 hip between the work and family it purports to regulate\, leaving individu
 als to bear structurally-produced strain alone. Fourth\, and most fundamen
 tally\, work itself is found to be capable of humanising or dehumanising t
 he person who performs it. It can sustain capability through purpose and c
 onnection\, or erode it under structural failure\, with consequences that 
 extend into marriage\, parenting\, and mental health. Taken together\, the
 se findings suggest that a work-family balance standard\, applied uniforml
 y\, is not only [...]
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LOCATION:Strathmore University\, Ole Sangale Link Road\, Madaraka Estate\, 
 Nairobi KE-30 00200\, Kenya
SUMMARY:3rd Annual Family Research Conference
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<a href="https://strathmore.edu/">3rd Annual F
 amily Research Conference</a>\nIntroduction: Dual-earner households are no
 w the norm across urban and peri-urban Kenya. Yet\, public discourse still
  treats work and family as separate worlds. One is public and demanding. T
 he other is private and secondary. New research involving 41 working paren
 ts suggests this picture is wrong on every count. Many working parents are
  not failing to balance two domains. Instead\, they are absorbing the cost
  of a legal and institutional system that was never built to recognise the
  two as connected at all. Work itself\, the research finds\, does not sit 
 neutrally alongside family life. These findings unfold across four connect
 ed themes. First\, the work-family binary itself does not hold as a stable
 \, shared frame. Participants hold plural\, sometimes contradictory theori
 es of whether work and family are even separable. Second\, where the ideal
  of balance persists\, parents and spouses often internalise their failure
  to reach it as personal. Structural conditions\, constant digital connect
 ivity\, unsupported remote and hybrid arrangements\, transfer\, hiring\, p
 ay and posting policies indifferent to caregiving\, understaffing\, and th
 inning social support\, are converted into private narratives of inadequac
 y. Third\, the research traces this displacement to its legal root: employ
 ment law’s thin\, transactional conception of work which fails to recogn
 ise the relationship between the work and family it purports to regulate\,
  leaving individuals to bear structurally-produced strain alone. Fourth\, 
 and most fundamentally\, work itself is found to be capable of humanising 
 or dehumanising the person who performs it. It can sustain capability thro
 ugh purpose and connection\, or erode it under structural failure\, with c
 onsequences that extend into marriage\, parenting\, and mental health. Tak
 en together\, these findings suggest that a work-family balance standard\,
  applied uniformly\, is not only [...]
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