Leaning In? Leaning Up? Leaning Out? Perspectives on Religion and Work-Life Balance

• In Event: Roundtable Session 19
  In Roundtable Session: Religion and Education: A Potpourri of Issues

Abstract

One strand that has been largely missing from the dialogue on work-life balance is the relationship of it to religious faith. Therefore, as mothers- one Protestant Christian and the other Muslim – working in public institutions of higher education, in this paper, we offer candid reflections of our experiences intertwining, separating and grappling with the ever-eluding balance of work-life and religion. By sharing our realities we hope to expand discourses concerning the inextricable nature of our religiosity to every other aspect of our lives.

Authors

• Joanne M. Marshall, Iowa State University

• Aisha El-Amin, University of Illinois at Chicago