New Special Issue in Social Indicators Research

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New special issue in Social Indicators Research edited by WFRN members,
Heejung Chung and Tanja van der Lippe

This special brings together innovative and multidisciplinary research (sociology, economics, and social work) using data from across Europe and the US to examine the potential flexible working has on the gender division of labour and workers’ work–life balance.

See below for the complete list of papers – many are open access!

• Flexible working, work life balance, and gender equality: Introduction – by Heejung Chung and Tanja van der Lippe (open access)
• Beyond formal access: Organizational context, working from home, and work–family conflict of men and women in European workplaces by Tanja van der Lippe and Zoltan Lippényi (open access)
• Gendered Effects of Home-Based Work on Parents’ Capability to Balance Work with Non-work: Two Countries with Different Models of Division of Labour by Anna Kurowska (open access)
• Flexible working and unpaid overtime in the UK: The role of gender, parental and occupational status by Heejung Chung and Mariska van der Horst (open access)
• Workplace flexibility and parent–child interactions among working parents in the US by Jaeseung Kim
• Does flexibility help employees switch off from work? Flexible working-time arrangements and cognitive work-to-home spillover for women and men in Germany by Yvonne Lott
• Gender, Flexibility Stigma and the Perceived Negative Consequences of Flexible Working in the UK  by Heejung Chung (open access) – media coverage/radio