The demands of home aren't going away. And they aren't going to be solved by men doing more and women doing less. Given these long-time realities, Leah Ruppanner calls for "significant and impactful solutions” in this talk. "We need more women taking more risks to make big, bold, innovative solutions that help us all,” she [Read More...]
Cohabiting dual-earner couples are increasingly common. However, previous recovery research mainly focused on employees independently of others, thereby overlooking an essential part of their life. Therefore, we take a closer look at dual-earner couples' recovery processes and link this research to a circadian perspective. We assumed that unfinished tasks impede engagement in time with the [Read More...]
Objective This paper explores if re-partnering leads to less traditional divisions of domestic work by comparing men and women in different European countries. Background Divorce and re-partnering have become more common, and we question if they are opening the scope for more gender-balanced arrangements at home and new theoretical approaches. Method Using the two available [Read More...]
This article focuses on how the socio-economic status of Palestinian women in Israel influences the housework division in a cultural context where social change, such as advancement in education occurs while traditional gender roles continue to exist. Logistic regression analysis was used including factors such as a woman's employment status, her educational achievement, her spouse's [Read More...]
The closure of schools and childcare centers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified pressure on U.S. parents already struggling to balance employment and family caregiving in a country that provides little social support. The move of schooling and childcare into the home – along with the still-unfolding effects on women’s employment – has [Read More...]
The context is young people joining a labour market made considerably more precarious by neo-liberalism and deregulation, an employment system where the former institutions are under pressure (the three treasures of lifetime employment, seniority-based wages and enterprise unionism), and Japan in the throes of a "long recession" dating back to the 1990s. Institutionally placed in [Read More...]
Young adults increasingly express a desire to create egalitarian romantic partnerships, yet numerous studies have shown that women generally continue to assume the lion's share of housework. Building on previous work on threshold levels of tolerance for dirt and disorder, on housework allocation, and on perceived fairness, the current longitudinal study documented the pathway by [Read More...]
Young adults increasingly express a desire to create egalitarian romantic partnerships, yet numerous studies have shown that women generally continue to assume the lion's share of housework. Building on previous work on threshold levels of tolerance for dirt and disorder, on housework allocation, and on perceived fairness, the current longitudinal study documented the pathway by [Read More...]
Parents of Children and Youth with Disabilities: Providing Exceptional Care and Meeting Work-Life Challenges Author(s): Claudia Sellmaier, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Washington-Tacoma Lisa M. Stewart, Associate Professor of Social Work, California State University-Monterey Bay Eileen M. Brennan, Research Professor of Social Work, Portland State University, Julie M. Rosenzweig, Professor Emerita of Social [Read More...]
In most mid- and high-income countries, there have been significant demographic, structural, and cultural changes in the past decades. However, we know little about how these changes have shaped women's work patterns during a key life stage: the transition to motherhood. Using longitudinal data from Chile, covering over 30 years of employment histories and three [Read More...]