The COVID-19 pandemic brought new tensions in determining how to enact representations of the professional and personal selves alongside digital technologies. In this paper, we explore those tensions as entangled enactments of agencies and identities related to simultaneous mothering and scholaring. Drawing on Barad's agential realist framework,…

This study focuses on the gender dimension of labour market transitions and its implications for policymaking in the areas of active labour market policies, career guidance, and skills development. The ETF initiated this research to map how activation and skills development policies are gaining importance in the neighbouring countries of the…

This study assessed the links between early maternal employment and children's later academic and behavioral skills in Australia and the United Kingdom. Using representative samples of children born in each country from 2000 to 2004 (Australia N = 5,093, U.K. N = 18,497), OLS regression models weighted with propensity scores assessed links between…

The role of grandparents and other close relatives in caring for the children of working mothers has been diminishing in modern societies everywhere including Jordan. Concurrently, the dependence on housemaids to care for the children of working mothers has been on the rise. The impact of housemaids on young Jordanian children (4-5 years old) was…

Married couples consisting of female breadwinners and male primary caretakers are increasing in prevalence and visibility. However, little is known about the experiences of these families, particularly about salient challenges and dynamics related to this work-family arrangement. Through inductive qualitative analysis, the current study…

This study examines how industry and occupation sex segregation are related to the use of flexible scheduling policies and perceptions of the career repercussions of using such policies. The analysis is performed on data from the 2002 National Study of the Changing Workforce (N = 2,810). Findings suggest that the percentage of women per industry…

Social institutions that have been around for thousands of years generally change slowly, when they change at all. But that's not the way things have been playing out with marriage and family since the middle of the 20th Century. Some scholars argue that in the past five decades, the basic architecture of these age-old institutions has changed as…

Do adults' perceptions of their mothers' and fathers' parenting practices in childhood vary by their mothers' employment status? Among adults in the Survey of Midlife Development in United States who lived with 2 biological parents until the age of 16 years (N = 2,246), those who had employed mothers during most or all of their childhood reported…

Reveals a high prevalence of shift work among mothers aged 18 to 44 with a preschool-aged child. Marital status is found to be a determinant of shift-work status for full-timers. Examines the relationship between shift-work status and child-care use showing primary reliance on father care for mothers employed non-days. (Author/ABB)

This paper reports a preliminary study of the consequences of limited discretionary time on the role, function, and meaning of leisure in the lives of women with both professional careers and parenting responsibilities. Analysis of the data collected revealed certain themes and issues in common. Implications of methodology and findings are…

The purpose of this study was to examine a broad range of variables that predict maternal self-efficacy with a sample of 92 Korean working mothers whose infants are cared for at non-maternal child care settings. In addition, differences between mothers of infants on welfare roll and their socioeconomic status (SES) counterparts (not on welfare)…

Investigated three hypotheses regarding structural predictors of domestic work of fathers of 48 families with a preschooler or kindergartner. Father involvement was greatest when the father was jobless and held a flexible view of the male role, the mother was working, and the target child was the oldest or nearly the oldest. (RJC)

Developed and tested model of how mothers' (n=147) interrole conflict and satisfaction with role of employed mother affected children's behavior. Found relationship between maternal employment role experiences and children's behavior was mediated by personal strain and parenting behavior. (Author/ABL)

Assessed parental involvement in child care as a function of family structure and maternal employment in 92 dual-wage and 103 single-wage families in India. Parents in single-wage families spent more time in primary caregiving, but fathers' involvement did not vary as a function of mothers' employment status or family structure. (SLD)

Studied conflicts between employment and child care in divorced mothers (N=381). Results showed the majority were employed full-time in clerical or sales positions. They allowed child care to take precedence over employment demands in some, but not all, conflict situations. Experience with dual responsibilities somewhat reduced the conflict.…