Are Family-friendly Policies Fair? It Depends on Your Gender

Family-friendly Policies 2 The benefits of family-friendly policies, defined as “employer policies and practices [designed] to support the integration of paid work with other significant family demands ” (Kossek, 2003: 3), have been widely touted as helpful for working women. We look at several variables that influence perceived policy fairness, a variable shown to be important to these policies (Grandey, 2001; Grover, 1991), including user type and gender and gender role beliefs. Multipl