Taking Its Toll: The Influence of Paid and Unpaid Work on Women's Well-Being

By M. MacDonald, S. Phipps, L. Lethbridge. 2005

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Gender and Life Satisfaction in the UK (2011, background): “MacDonald, Phipps, and Lethbridge ( 2005 ) find that, in Canada, women's hours of unpaid work contribute to stress, and within these work hours, time spent on eldercare and housework is more stressful than that spent on childcare.”
Methodological choices in work-life balance research 1987 to 2006: a critical review (2010, unknown): “1999 ; Allen 2001 ; McDonald, Brown and Bradley 2005 ).”
Work‐life balance, travel‐to‐work, and the dual career household (2012, background): “It increases stress, especially where difficulties are faced in combining work, unpaid housework, and work-related travel (MacDonald et al., 2005).”
Measuring Care: Gender, Empowerment, and the Care Economy (2006, background): “They are also relevant to subjective assessments of well-being such as the level of stress or feeling of being rushed (Floro, 1995; McDonald et al., 2005).”
Work-life balance of shift workers (2008, unknown): “Separate models were developed for women and men since factors contributing to their well-being have been shown to be different (MacDonald, Phipps and Lethbridge 2005).”