Overworked Individuals or Overworked Families?

By J. Jacobs, K. Gerson. 2001

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Family Structure, Gender, and the Work–Family Interface: Work-to-Family Conflict Among Single and Partnered Parents (2012, methodology): “Increasing the flexibility of workplaces, especially in terms of employees controlling the scheduling of their work hours, may be one effective tool for time-pressed individuals, including single parents, to deal with the challenges they face that may lead to work-to-family conflict (Christensen and”
From ‘work–family’ to ‘flexible careers’ (2004, background): “…& Godbey, 1997; Schor, 1991), when the couple is considered as a social unit there is little doubt that work hours — the combined efforts of the husband and the wife — have risen in dramatic ways over the past three decades (Clarkberg & Merola, 2003; Clarkberg & Moen, 2001; Jacobs & Gerson, 2001).”
Antecedents and Consequences of Psychological Workplace Strain During Expatriation: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Investigation (2005, positive): “Previous studies have suggested that parents in single-parent households experience higher workplace strain than those in dual-parent families (e.g., Schumm, Bell, Rice, & Perez, 1996), most likely due to more time-based family‐work conflicts ( Jacobs & Gerson, 2001 ).”
The Case for a New Class Map1 (2005, background): “This topic has attracted much scholarly attention, presumably because work commitments affect leisure time, serve as a natural starting point in understanding the shifting balance between work and family obligations, and set limits on earnings and economic security (Jacobs and Gerson 2001, p. 40).”
Workhours and worklife balance (2008, background): “Furthermore, there is a lack of studies that focus on the total workload of individual people and couples, and also of studies that analyze worklife balance from a family perspective rather than from the perspective of the employee (89).”
From Opt Out to Blocked Out: The Challenges for Labor Market Re-entry after Family-Related Employment Lapses (2018, background): “These expectations for employees conflict with similarly intensive parenting standards for middle- and upper-class parents (Blair-Loy 2003; Jacobs and Gerson 2001), contributing to parents’ decisions to “opt out” of work to care for children full-time (Stone 2008).1 Opting out is a gendered…”
The influence of family responsibilities, career fields and gender on career success (2008, background): “In the last 50 years partnership ideas have changed for both men and women (Jacobs and Gerson, 2001; Erler, 1996; Peuckert, 1996; Herlth et al., 1994; Kaufmann, 1990).”
Are motherhood penalties and fatherhood bonuses warranted? Comparing pro-work behaviors and conditions of mothers, fathers, and non-parents (2011, background): “In fact, our economic system rewards fathers for over-investing in their job and society does little to punish them for disinvesting in family (Jacobs and Gerson, 2001; Hundley, 2001; Williams, 2002; Wallace and Young, 2008).”