Journal article
Do Workplace Flexibility Policies Influence Time Spent in Domestic Labor?
Journal of family issues, Vol.28(2), pp.263-288
02/2007
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X06292703
Abstract
Using data from a U.S. midwestern sample of mothers and fathers, the authors examine whether using workplace flexibility policies alters time spent in housework and child care. They hypothesize that an individual’s policy use will lead to more time in domestic labor and that his or her spouse’s policy use will lead to less time in domestic labor. Several results support their hypotheses. Mothers who work part-time spend more time in housework and their husbands spend less time in housework. Also, mothers who work at home spend more time in child care. One policy has the opposite of the predicted effect: Wives with flexible work schedules do less housework, and their husbands do more. Overall, mothers’ policy use has counterbalancing effects on their own and their spouses’ domestic labor time, implying that policy use has little net impact on total domestic labor time within dual-earner families.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Do Workplace Flexibility Policies Influence Time Spent in Domestic Labor?
- Creators
- Mary C Noonan - The University of IowaSarah Beth Estes - University of Arkansas, Little RockJennifer L Glass - The University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of family issues, Vol.28(2), pp.263-288
- DOI
- 10.1177/0192513X06292703
- ISSN
- 0192-513X
- eISSN
- 1552-5481
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications; Thousand Oaks, CA
- Comment
- Test development: Gender Role Attitudes Scale
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/2007
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984002592402771
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