Women's Work: How Mothers Manage Flexible Working in Careers and Family Life, by ZoeYoung. Bristol University Press, Bristol, UK, 2018, 232 pp., ISBN: 978-1-5292-0203-8, £24.99, paperback

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 715-716
Author(s):  
Tracy Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Flexible Working

Flexible Working: Effects on Women’s Work-Life Balance, Lifestyle and Health

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 4684-4687
Author(s):  
Nor Hazana Abdullah ◽  
Adibah Abdul Kadir ◽  
Zulida Abdul Kadir ◽  
Sarinah Sabar
Keyword(s):  
Women's Work ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Flexible Working

scholarly journals ‘Women’s work penalty’ in access to flexible working arrangements across Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heejung Chung
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Schedule Control ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Flexible Working ◽  
Low Pay

Many assume that women and workers in female-dominated workplaces will have better access to flexible working arrangements. Some use this as justification for the low wages found in these workplaces. Yet, empirical results are mixed. I explore this question by examining workers’ access to schedule control across 27 European countries, and find no discernible gender differences in access to schedule control when individual and company-level characteristics are taken into account. However, working in female-dominated jobs and/or sectors significantly reduces access to schedule control for both men and women. This ‘women’s work penalty’ in female-dominated sectors varies across Europe but nowhere was the access better compared to sectors where both genders are equally represented. This raises concerns regarding the lack of favourable working conditions, in addition to low pay found in female-dominated workplaces.

A NEW GENDER(ED) ORDER? RESEARCHING AND RETHINKING WOMEN’S WORK

Sociology ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 869-873 ◽  
Author(s):  
HARRIET BRADLEY
Keyword(s):  
Women's Work ◽  
Women’S Work
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