Merit Hietanen

The Humanitarian Parent (eBook, ePUB)

Balancing Work and Family in the Aid Sector

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003804802
• Artikelnr.: 69167783

Autorenporträt

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