How Employed Mothers in Australia Find Time for Both Market Work and Childcare

By Lyn Craig. 2007

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Time use studies find that employed mothers reduce their parental childcare time by much less than an hour for every hour they spend in market work. This paper uses data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Time Use Survey 1997 (4,059 randomly selected households) to investigate how employed mothers manage to avoid a one-for-one trade-off between work and childcare. It compares the time allocation of employed fathers, employed mothers and non-employed mothers and finds that parents use non-parental childcare to reschedule as well as to replace their own childcare, that employed mothers reschedule activities from weekdays to weekends or to earlier or later in the day, and spend less time than other mothers in housework, childfree leisure and personal care.

Subfields: Finance, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Fertility Determinants and Economic Uncertainty: An Assessment Using European Panel Data (2010, background): “supply and child care and have shown the interdependency over the life cycle of fertility and female employment rates (e.g. Cain and Dooley 1976; Fleisher and Rhodes 1976; Moffit 1984; Hotz and Miller 1988; Mahdavi 1990; Cigno 1991; Kalwij 2000; Papapetrou 2004; Stanfors 2006; Huang 2007; Weagley et”
A Review of the Literature on the Social and Economic Determinants of Parental Time (2008, background): “Working parents will instead forgo activities such as sleep and television watching to contend with the time squeeze brought on by hours of paid employment (Bianchi 2000; Craig 2007; Hill and Stafford 1985).”
Feeling Rushed: Gendered Time Quality, Work Hours, Nonstandard Work Schedules, and Spousal Crossover (2017, result): “This is consistent with previous research finding mothers protect childcare time when they are employed (Bianchi, 2009; Craig, 2007).”
The incremental time costs of children: An analysis of children's impact on adult time use in Australia (2008, background): “Parents also redirect non-market (personal care and leisure) time to childcare, but this, also, is much less the case for fathers than for mothers (Craig 2007b).”
Non-standard work schedules, work-family balance and the gendered division of childcare (2011, background): “This is particularly the case for talk-based care, which is almost the same for employed and non-employed mothers (Craig, 2007b).”