Gender and Educational Variation in How Temporal Dimensions of Paid Work Affect Parental Child Care Time
Using the 2017–2018 American Time Use Survey, the authors investigate how a comprehensive set of temporal conditions of paid work affects parental child care time, with attention to gender and education. Temporal work conditions include access to leave, inflexible start and end times, short advance...
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| description | Using the 2017–2018 American Time Use Survey, the authors investigate how a comprehensive set of temporal conditions of paid work affects parental child care time, with attention to gender and education. Temporal work conditions include access to leave, inflexible start and end times, short advance notice of work schedules, types of work shifts, and usual days worked. Among mothers, the only significant relationship is between usual days worked and routine care time. Among fathers, lacking access to paid leave and having inflexible start and end times are associated with reduced routine care time, and working on variable days of the week is related to less developmental care time. Temporal work conditions also shape the educational gap in parental child care time. Importantly, nonstandard shifts and working on weekends widen the educational gradient in mothers’ developmental care time. The findings imply that temporal work conditions amplify gender inequality in work-family lives and families as agents of class reproduction. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8d32c1ca39524f7cb29e159971d7a33b2022-12-22T03:53:47ZengSAGE PublishingSocius2378-02312022-10-01810.1177/23780231221132383Gender and Educational Variation in How Temporal Dimensions of Paid Work Affect Parental Child Care TimeYue Qian0Liana C. Sayer1University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CanadaUniversity of Maryland, College Park, MD, USAUsing the 2017–2018 American Time Use Survey, the authors investigate how a comprehensive set of temporal conditions of paid work affects parental child care time, with attention to gender and education. Temporal work conditions include access to leave, inflexible start and end times, short advance notice of work schedules, types of work shifts, and usual days worked. Among mothers, the only significant relationship is between usual days worked and routine care time. Among fathers, lacking access to paid leave and having inflexible start and end times are associated with reduced routine care time, and working on variable days of the week is related to less developmental care time. Temporal work conditions also shape the educational gap in parental child care time. Importantly, nonstandard shifts and working on weekends widen the educational gradient in mothers’ developmental care time. The findings imply that temporal work conditions amplify gender inequality in work-family lives and families as agents of class reproduction.https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231221132383 |
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| title | Gender and Educational Variation in How Temporal Dimensions of Paid Work Affect Parental Child Care Time |
| title_full | Gender and Educational Variation in How Temporal Dimensions of Paid Work Affect Parental Child Care Time |
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| title_short | Gender and Educational Variation in How Temporal Dimensions of Paid Work Affect Parental Child Care Time |
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