Abstract
For decades, women in leadership have been trying to “reimagine the future of workplace well-being” in order to instigate human flourishing. In 2009, a research team formed at Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology to better understand the issues that women in leadership face regarding work-life balance. This group formed a qualitative research study to investigate the phenomenon of women leaders who are juggling the demands of multiple roles at work and at home. The research team, led by Dr. Margaret J. Weber, is now in its tenth year and has grown to be more than 25 researchers working with a dataset representing over 600 women in various age groups, ethnicities, geographic regions, global perspectives, cultural thoughts, and professional expertise. The team has evolved and produced a series of books, articles, conference presentations, and friendships. As a result of this research project, women are reimagining ways to integrate work and family in order to reach human flourishing. The results from the study are shared in this chapter.
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Heath, K., Weber, M.J. (2021). Women in Leadership and Work-Family Integration: Strategies for Fulfillment and Well-Being. In: Dhiman, S.K. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Well-Being. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30025-8_35
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