Question

1.“Balancing Home and Work.”Write one APA bibliographical entry and one example of an in-text citation.

Answer 1

Balancing home and work might seem to be hard when heard. But there numerous number of people who have proved themself in that balancing game, especially women. It is a potential area for marriage and family therapy. Most of legal cases in family court might be ragrding this issue. According to an article, "Women in workplace: work-life balance lessons from mission control" by Rebecca Marsh, says how women can balance both work and family and advance in their career from the author's own experience. She being a marriage and family therapist, struggled herself in the initial years fo manage both work and family of three children and husband. Tgere are several.jobs where they need women to be part of. Also there are many legal provisions for working women. So the environment for ladies ro work are getting better everyday. The article says how women can help themselves. Ith is they themself who have to find time to manage everything under control. Division of labor is an important tool for that balancing. If children and husband are made aware of the duties they have to perform, then a great deal of balancing is done. Article also says how employers can help. Inorder to retain talented women workers in their offices they need ro practice family friendly human resource practices such as flextime, bonuses, job sharing, telecommunicating, assistance in providing daycare of providing outside day care, as well as suitable nursing areas. The first and formost thing that everyone should understand is that its not a big hurdle to.manage both work and home. If they have proper organised plans, then half of the work is done.

Example of intext citation :

Slaughter, A. (2012) . Why women still can't have it all. Atlantic Monthly, 310(1) : 84-102