Changing Europe and The Relevance of Care and The Caring Professions by Margrit Brückner

“…This welfare-mix shows different combinations of private and public obligations, paid and und unpaid work, professional and laymen's tasks based on a specific understanding of mo-rality and justice embedded in the gender structure and intergenerational relationships. …”
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COVID-19 vaccine willingness prior to and during the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in Australia by Bing Wang, Rebecca Nolan, Benjamin Krumeich, Katina D’Onise, Helen Marshall

“…Other factors significantly associated with higher willingness were ≥Year 12 education (aOR: 2.50 for Year 12/TAFE/certificate/diploma vs <Year 12 education; aOR: 1.44 for bachelor’s degree or higher vs <Year 12 education), highest socioeconomic level vs lowest socioeconomic level (aOR: 1.75), and unpaid work/retirement/other vs unemployment (aOR: 1.77). …”
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Joys or Sorrows of Parenting During the COVID-19 Lockdown: A Scoping Review by Marta Fadda, Matilde Melotto, Maria Caiata-Zufferey, Milo Alan Puhan, Anja Frei, Emiliano Albanese, Anne-Linda Camerini

“…We sought to: 1) identify parenting domains that were particularly affected by lockdown measures, 2) describe the challenges and opportunities of lockdown measures in these domains, and 3) define protective and exacerbating factors modulating the effect of lockdown measures on parents.Methods: We identified five main domains investigated in the context of parenting during the early COVID-19 lockdown derived from 84 studies: health and wellbeing, parental role, couple functioning, family and social relationships, and paid and unpaid work. For each domain, we listed challenges and opportunities, as well as discriminant factors.Results: The lockdown impacted all five different but interconnected domains, introduced new roles in parents’ lives, and particularly affected women and vulnerable populations.Conclusion: This scoping review highlights the importance of approaching public health policymaking from a social justice perspective. …”
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The effect of teacher agency support, students’ personal perseverance and work experience on student agency in secondary schools with Estonian and Russian instructional language by Maria Erss, Krista Loogma, Anna-Liisa Jõgi

“…Among different types of work experience, working on holidays, in student work camps, doing other paid work (i.e., working in their own business), and voluntary unpaid work were significantly positively correlated with the agency. …”
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Systems thinking on the gendered impacts of COVID-19 in Bangladesh: A systematic review by Mou Rani Sarker, Md Abdur Rouf Sarkar, Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Ismat Ara Begum, Humnath Bhandari

“…The evidence suggests that the advancement of women during this pandemic was hampered by poor reproductive health outcomes; girls' dropping out of school; job loss; less income; a comparable wage gap; a lack of social security; unpaid work burnout; increased emotional, physical, and sexual abuse; an increase in child marriages; and less participation in leadership and decision-making. …”
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Gendered occupational aspirations among German youth: Role of parental occupations, gender division of labour, and family structure by Helen Law, Pia Schober

“…Regarding the parental gender division of paid and unpaid work, only mothers' continuous non-employment was associated with daughters being more likely to aspire to a gender-typical occupation. …”
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Productivity losses among individuals with common mental illness and comorbid cardiovascular disease in rural Karnataka, India by Farah Naaz Fathima, James G Kahn, Srinivasan Krishnamachari, Maria Ekstrand

“…Subjects and Methods: Three hundred and three patients were administered the iMTA Productivity Cost Questionnaire to measure losses of productivity at paid work (absenteeism and presenteeism) and unpaid work. Statistical Analysis Used: Valuation of productivity losses was done by multiplying the number of days of lost productivity by the standard value of productivity based on the minimum wage for agricultural work. …”
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Occupational Concepts: An Underutilized Resource to Further Disabled People and Others Being Occupied: A Scoping Review by Gregor Wolbring, Simerta Gill

“…Background: Being occupied is an important factor in human well-being and ranges from paid and unpaid work to activities of daily living. Various occupational concepts that do not contain health in the phrase such as “occupational justice” are employed to engage with the social barriers people experience in being occupied. …”
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Exploring the value of organizational support, engagement, and psychological wellbeing in the volunteer context by Grace Dekel, Madelyn Geldenhuys, Madelyn Geldenhuys, Jemma Harris

“…The findings contributed to the existing literature, suggesting there are overlaps between support mechanisms and motivation between paid and unpaid work. The practical implications for not-for-profit organizations are the importance of providing organizational support for young adult volunteers to improve wellbeing outcomes. …”
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The Use of Time in Peru: A Scarce and Unvalued Resource in the National Economy by Arlette Beltrán, Pablo Lavado

“…Conventional measures of economic well-being, such as gross domestic product (GDP) and poverty, do not consider the goods produced within the household or the unpaid work done at home. This study analyzes the quantification of the value added generated within a Peruvian household based on the recalculation of the average wage of domestic workers. …”
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We, the citizens of Singapore: a study of the gender pay gap through the lens of gendered citizenship by Wee, Ethel Xian Ning

“…The public sphere remains male-dominated, and the emergence of masculine capital leads to a further legitimization of work done in the public sphere and a devaluation of unpaid work in the private sphere. This qualitative study thus highlights the nexus of the military, the workplace and the home as gendered spaces that not only reproduce and reinforce the gender pay gap but produce unequal forms of gendered citizenship.…”
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Indian hi-tech immigrants in Canada: emerging gendered divisions of labour by Hari, A

“…In practice, however, familial responsibilities remain a more significant aspect of womenʼs lives, reproducing gendered divisions of both paid and unpaid work that mirror traditional gender roles and ideologies. …”

Women in Britain’s Pakistani diaspora and their relationship with formal and informal Labour, 1962-2002 by Din, A

“…In other words, solely focussing on British-Pakistani women’s formal waged labour participation, rather than acknowledging the breadth of their paid and unpaid work, is both limiting and reductive. </p> …”

Media image of sport volunteering during the UEFA Euro 2012™ and the motives for social work and its style of volunteers working in Poznan and in Poland by Marek Brdak

“…Encouraging volunteers to unpaid work in sport area of tournament by presenting it as a possibility to feel the sports atmosphere was similar to motives and significant more often reported by its volunteers than volunteers working in urban zone. …”
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Media image of sport volunteering during the UEFA Euro 2012™ and the motives for social work and its style of volunteers working in Poznan and in Poland by Marek Brdak

“…Encouraging volunteers to unpaid work in sport area of tournament by presenting it as a possibility to feel the sports atmosphere was similar to motives and significant more often reported by its volunteers than volunteers working in urban zone. …”
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Indirect costs of adult pneumococcal disease and the productivity-based rate of return to the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine for adults in Turkey by J. P. Sevilla, Andrew Stawasz, Daria Burnes, Anubhav Agarwal, Basak Hacibedel, Kerem Helvacioglu, Reiko Sato, David E. Bloom

“…Indirect costs from death or disability equal the expected present discounted value of lifetime losses in the infected individual’s paid and unpaid work and in caregivers’ paid work. Vaccination benefits comprise averted indirect costs. …”
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Deconstructing leisure time and workload: case of women bean producers in Kenya by Eileen Bogweh Nchanji, Mercy Mutua, Collins Odhiambo, Yvonne Kiki Nchanji, David Karanja

“…We were also interested in understanding how men's and women's workload affects leisure and other productive economic activities, resulting in empowerment and how women’s unpaid work contributes to income poverty. Result The WEAI showed that 28% of disempowerment (5DE) in women farmers is due to lack of time for leisure activities and 18% from being overworked. …”
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„Involvierte“ Väter zwischen Beruf und Familie. Zur Re/Produktion von Männlichkeiten in paarinternen Aushandlungen by Almut Peukert

“…This implies that in addition to welfare state policies and work organizations, the negotiations within the couple about their division of paid and unpaid work have significant consequences for the un/equality between the parents. …”
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Predicting the onset and persistence of episodes of depression in primary health care. The predictD-Spain study: Methodology by Brangier-Wainberg Paulette, Ruiz-García Victor, Motrico Emma, March Sebastia, Sánchez-Artiaga María, Vázquez-Medrano Ana, Oliván-Blázquez Bárbara, Martínez-Cañavate María, Gutierrez Blanca, Cervilla Jorge A, de Dios Luna Juan, Vicens Catalina, Díaz-Barreiros Miguel, Sánchez-Celaya Marta, GildeGómez-Barragán María, Montón-Franco Carmen, Torres-González Francisco, Moreno-Küstner Berta, Bellón Juan, del Mar Muñoz-García María, Nazareth Irwin, King Michael

“…Cronbach's alphas were good and their factorial analyses coherent for the three scales evaluated (social support from family and friends, dissatisfaction with paid work, and dissatisfaction with unpaid work). There were 191 (0.16%) data entry errors.…”
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Predicting the onset of anxiety syndromes at 12 months in primary care attendees. The predictA-Spain study. by Patricia Moreno-Peral, Juan de Dios Luna, Louise Marston, Michael King, Irwin Nazareth, Emma Motrico, María Josefa GildeGómez-Barragán, Francisco Torres-González, Carmen Montón-Franco, Marta Sánchez-Celaya, Miguel Ángel Díaz-Barreiros, Catalina Vicens, Carlos Muñoz-Bravo, Juan Ángel Bellón

“…The predictA-Spain risk algorithm included the following predictors of anxiety syndromes: province; sex (female); younger age; taking medicines for anxiety, depression or stress; worse physical and mental quality of life (SF-12); dissatisfaction with paid and unpaid work; perception of financial strain; and the interactions sex*age, sex*perception of financial strain, and age*dissatisfaction with paid work. …”
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