Relations of Paternal Involvement in Child Rearing and Maternal Work-Life Balance to Young Children’s Gender Role Stereotype

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Youngsil Ko ◽  
Yonghan Park
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Paternal Involvement ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Maternal Work ◽  
Role Stereotype ◽  
Gender Role Stereotype

The Nexus Between Work-Life Balance and Gender Role in Egypt

2021 ◽  
pp. 185-213
Author(s):  
Ghada El-Kot ◽  
Mike Leat ◽  
Sarah Fahmy
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals Examining gender role attitude as a moderator of personality, social support, and childcare responsibilities in women’s work-life balance

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-244
Author(s):  
Abdul Rahman Shaleh ◽  
Putri Nuraini
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Gender Role Attitude ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Family Social Support

The participation of women in the workforce creates challenges and problems. Those with various roles in their lives must be good at playing and balancing these successfully. This study focuses on the work-life balance factor by exploring the predictor factors including personality, family social support, and childcare responsibilities, as moderated by gender role attitude. A work/ nonwork interference and enhancement scale, mini-IPIP, gender role beliefs scale, and social support scale were developed for the data collection. A sample of 220 married female workers was identified using purposive sampling. The data analysis, which used multiple regression and a modgraph, shows a significant effect of personality, social support, and childcare responsibilities on the work-life balance moderated by gender role attitude. Four independent variables with significant influence are neuroticism, openness to experiencing family support, gender role attitude and there is a moderating effect on neuroticism and family support. The implication is the need to provide a comfortable work environment and arrangement of work patterns so that women's work-life balance can be achieved positively.

scholarly journals Should We Tell the Recruiter That We Value a Good Work–Life Balance?

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 120-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Proost ◽  
Dieter Verhaest
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Signaling Theory ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Good Work ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Congruence Theory ◽  
Mediation Hypothesis ◽  
And Gender

Abstract. Although both employees and organizations increasingly realize the importance of a good work–life balance, it remains unclear how recruiters react when applicants mention a desire for balance on their CV. We conducted a between-subjects experiment (N = 96) in which one group of participants received a CV of an applicant who valued work–life balance versus a CV from which this information was omitted. Based on signaling theory and gender–role congruence theory, we suggested that mentioning balance on one’s CV would lead to less favorable recruitment outcomes through a lower work ethic, especially for men. The results supported this mediation hypothesis but, contrary to expectations, showed that the mediation effect was only significant for women.

Definitions of work-life balance in childfree dual-career couples: an inductive typology

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Galina Boiarintseva ◽  
Souha R. Ezzedeen ◽  
Christa Wilkin
Keyword(s):  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Dual Career ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Work Lives ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Dual Career Couples ◽  
The Individual

PurposeWork-life balance experiences of dual-career professional couples with children have received considerable attention, but there remains a paucity of research on the definitions of work-life balance among dual-career professional couples without children. This qualitative investigation sheds light on childfree couples' lives outside of work and their concomitant understanding of work-life balance.Design/methodology/approachThe study draws on interviews with 21 dual-career professional couples in Canada and the US, exploring their non-work lives and how they conceive of work-life balance.FindingsThematic analyses demonstrate that this group, while free of child rearing responsibilities, still deals with myriad non-work obligations. These couples also defy uniform characterization. The inductive investigation uncovered four couple categories based on the individual members' career and care orientations. These included careerist, conventional, non-conventional and egalitarian couples. Definitions of work-life balance varied across couple type according to the value they placed on flexibility, autonomy and control, and their particular level of satisfaction with their work and non-work domains.Originality/valueThis study contributes to research at the intersection of work-life balance and various demographic groups by exploring the work-life balance of professional dual-career couples without children. Using an interpretive ontology, the study advances a typology of childfree dual-career professional couples. The findings challenge the rhetoric that these couples are primarily work-oriented but otherwise carefree. Thus, this study demonstrates ways that childfree couples are different as well as similar to those with children.

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