Drawing on the author's own experiences as an aid worker, as well as extensive original interviews and desk research, the book looks at the challenges faced by those who aspire to a family life, from dating and finding a partner who is happy to move, to being away from home and family, finding childcare, and settling children in new places.
Drawing on the author's own experiences as an aid worker, as well as extensive original interviews and desk research, the book looks at the challenges faced by those who aspire to a family life, from dating and finding a partner who is happy to move, to being away from home and family, finding childcare, and settling children in new places.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Merit Hietanen is a gender and protection expert with over ten years of experience in the humanitarian and development sectors, working for organisations such as UNRWA, UN Women, and the International Rescue Committee in Gaza, Jordan, cross-border Syria, Cameroon, and Myanmar. Most recently, she has been advising the Finnish Foreign Ministry on their co-chairpersonship of the Good Humanitarian Donorship Initiative. Merit has specialised in issues around women's protection, gender equality, and gender-based violence and also has experience in humanitarian coordination, WASH programming and communications. Merit is passionate about humanitarian sector reform and finding local solutions to issues of gender equality, including in her home country, Finland, where she is the vice president of the Feminist Association Union.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction PART I The humanitarian workplace and what it does to parents 1 The work culture in a humanitarian workplace 2 Why is change necessary and how do we get there? PART II For the ones thinking about having children 3 Making a decision about having children 4 Childless not by choice and how to get out of it PART III Life of a parent in the aid sector 5 Mothers who work on national contracts 6 LGBTQIA+ parents 7 Single mothers 8 Trailing spouses or unemployed aid workers ¿9 Fathers 10 The humanitarian nannies: the dependency of aid parents on domestic staff PART IV A sector in change: where do we go next? 11 What have policies given us? 12 Making humanitarian contexts more compatible with parenthood 13 Parental leave: where are we and where should we go? 14 Office hours and flexible working arrangements: what needs to change? Epilogue
Introduction PART I The humanitarian workplace and what it does to parents 1 The work culture in a humanitarian workplace 2 Why is change necessary and how do we get there? PART II For the ones thinking about having children 3 Making a decision about having children 4 Childless not by choice and how to get out of it PART III Life of a parent in the aid sector 5 Mothers who work on national contracts 6 LGBTQIA+ parents 7 Single mothers 8 Trailing spouses or unemployed aid workers ¿9 Fathers 10 The humanitarian nannies: the dependency of aid parents on domestic staff PART IV A sector in change: where do we go next? 11 What have policies given us? 12 Making humanitarian contexts more compatible with parenthood 13 Parental leave: where are we and where should we go? 14 Office hours and flexible working arrangements: what needs to change? Epilogue
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