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This article is part of a larger ethnographic study that seeks to understand how community mental health practice has changed over time in response to shifts in Medicaid management and financing. In this article, I examine the struggle that took place on the ground in one emblematic community mental health agency as frontline workers strived to realize their 'recovery' vision under emerging managerial arrangements of fee-for-service billing. This study finds that managerial reforms conflict with locally forged practices that emphasize self-determination and program responsiveness. By analyzing how street-level workers respond to formal policy in a real-time, situated context, this article gives greater transparency to policies that are otherwise uncertain, providing a fuller picture of how policy is produced in everyday life.

Work and the Transition to Motherhood: Introduction -- Understanding and Overcoming Challenges Faced by Working Mothers: A Theoretical and Empirical Review -- Identity and the Transition to Motherhood: Navigating Existing, Temporary, and Anticipatory Identities -- Marissa Mayer: An Analysis of Media Reaction to a Pregnant CEO -- The Inevitable Stigma for Childbearing-Aged Women in the Workplace: Five Perspectives on the Pregnancy-Work Intersection -- Stay at Home or Go Back to Work? Antecedents and Consequences of Mothers' Return to Work After Childbirth -- Parental Leave and Return to Work -- Global Maternity Benefits and Their Impact on Maternal and Child Well-Being -- Maternal Employment and Child Health: Conceptual and Empirical Foundations for Work and Family "Weaving Strategies" -- Employed Mother Stereotypes and Linkages to Work-Family Conflict and Enrichment -- Lactation and the Working Woman: Understanding the Role of Organizational Factors, Lactation Support, and Legal Policy in Promoting Breastfeeding Success -- The Importance and Impact of Child Care on a Woman's Transition to Motherhood -- The Other Half: Views of Fatherhood in the Organization -- Future Research Directions on Work and the Transition to Motherhood.

"This book examines the intricate challenges faced by women and families during the transition to motherhood. It presents unique theoretical and methodological approaches to studying women's transition from being employees to working mothers. Its focus is on the impact of work on the transition to motherhood, and the impact of motherhood on women's working arrangements, work attitudes, work experiences and perspectives. Special attention is given to intervention research that can enhance the health and well-being of mothers and employers as they reconcile demands of the family-work interface. Integrating theoretical framework development and methodological considerations, this book provides an in-depth introduction to the topic. It brings together researchers and experts on the work-family interface, on workplace discrimination during pregnancy and early motherhood, and well-being"--Provided by publisher

In this paper, we provide a fiery critique of the tendency for management research to adopt gender-blind perspectives and call on management scholars to step up and call workplaces what they are: gendered. Blending perspectives from diversity scholarship, organizational sciences, popular culture, feminism, etc., we provide a multifaceted argument for why ignoring gender in our work is harmful to our field and to gender equity efforts.