Work-family backlash: Begging the question, what's fair?

This article examines current work-family practice and scholarship in light of recent demographic shifts that make employees without children under ag e 18 the predominant group in the workforce. One consequence of this change is work-family backlash, a controversy over the fundamental issue of what is fair. Organizational justice theory helps illuminate the deep assumption s that underlie both corporate work-life policies and employees' perception s of their fairness, as data from a qualitative study of work-life issues s how. Organizational justice theory can also make a significant contribution to work-family research.