The Bi-directional Workplace-Family Spillover Influenced by Work-Family Balance Oriented Culture in Workplaces and Gender Traditionalism: Moderating Effects of Organizational Types

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-213
Author(s):  
Jae-Hee Kim ◽  
Hee-Sun Lee ◽  
Sung-Hae Park
Keyword(s):  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Family Balance ◽  
Work Family Balance ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Gender Traditionalism

European gender cultures

2019 ◽  
pp. 101-122
Author(s):  
Vera Lomazzi ◽  
Isabella Crespi
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role Attitudes ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Working Parents ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Family Balance ◽  
Gender Regimes ◽  
Work Family Balance ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Positive Effect

Wondering whethergender mainstreaming really supports the shift to a more gender-egalitarian Europe,this chapter explores the intertwined relation between individual gender role attitudes, gender regimes,and gender cultures in Europe. It investigates how structural aspects, which determine the opportunities available for men and women to achieve their goals, as well as cultural features, which establish socially constructed, predominant family models and legitimised gender roles, contribute to explaining individuals’ beliefs in gender equality. The chapter reports empirical evidence of the positive effect of work-family balance policies, which enshrines the gender mainstreaming principles, on the promotion of gender egalitarian beliefs. Thesepolicies and workplace practices allow working parents to combine their professional and personal responsibilities, directly affecting their opportunity structures. Because of such realistic opportunities, people tend to express more egalitarian views. At the same time, the implementation of work-family balance policies transmits a certain idea of a lifestyle model and family pattern, legitimising them through structural elements that contribute to changing current gender regimes.

Father Influences on Employed Mothers' Work–Family Balance

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (9) ◽  
pp. 1136-1160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Fagan ◽  
Julie Press
Keyword(s):  
Family Involvement ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Family Balance ◽  
Successful Work ◽  
Employed Mothers ◽  
Work Family Balance ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Work Family

This study employed the ecological systems perspective and gender ideology theory to examine the influence of fathers' paid work–family crossover and family involvement on self-reports of work–family balance by employed mothers with children under the age of 13 ( N = 179). Multiple regression analyses revealed that fathers' crossover factors had a significant influence on mothers' perceptions of successful work–family balance. Mothers reported lower levels of work–family balance when fathers brought more stress from work to home. Mothers with more traditional gender ideologies reported higher levels of work–family balance when the father had a flexible job and when he was more involved in child care.

Work, Family, and Gender: Elements for a Theory of Work-Family Balance

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 641-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonor M. Cantera ◽  
Mª Eugenia Cubells ◽  
Luz Mª Martínez ◽  
Josep M. Blanch
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
New World ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Family Balance ◽  
Economic Survival ◽  
Work Family Balance ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Practical Implications

Over last century, work was not only a means of economic survival, but also a very strong factor of psychological structuring and of organization of personal, family, and everyday life. The new world of work provides new challenges to the balance of work and family life. A questionnaire was administered to a sample of 453 people with the aim of analyzing the relation between variables such as family burdens and domestic responsibilities, and the appraisal of work and family, values involved in work-family balance. The results of this study show that, in the present economic and cultural context, assuming family burdens and domestic responsibilities increases the positive appraisal of work and family, both in men and women. This has theoretical and practical implications concerning the challenge of work-family balance.

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