The Time Economy of Parenting

This paper explores how the UK Time Use Survey (UKTUS), together with the author's qualitative interviews and focus groups with London parents, can inform current policy debates about childcare and parental employment. It also refers to the international literature about long-term trends in parental childcare time. It addresses four key questions about time use and parenting, which have implications for theorisation of the ‘gender contract’ regarding childcare and for our understanding of the gendered distribution of time between care, work and leisure in two-parent families. How is total parenting time affected by parents’ work hours? How do the long work weeks of British fathers affect their capacity to share childcare with mothers? Would childcare time rise if work hours were more equally distributed between women and men? This invokes a discussion of how far childcare is really transferable between parents (or can be delegated to external carers); to what extent is it ‘work’ or a relational activity?

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11. The United Kingdom: Towards a Parting of the Ways

The Member States of the European Union ◽

10.1093/hepl/9780198737391.003.0011 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 257-279

Author(s):

Anand Menon ◽

Luigi Scazzieri

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Public Opinion ◽

Institutional Development ◽

The European Union ◽

Integration Process ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

History Of ◽

Long Term Trends ◽

The Uk

This chapter examines the history of the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European integration process. The chapter dissects the long-term trends in public opinion and the more contingent, short-term factors that led to the referendum vote to leave the European Union. The UK was a late joiner and therefore unable to shape the early institutional development of the EEC. British political parties and public opinion were always ambiguous about membership and increasingly Eurosceptic from the early 1990s. Yet the UK had a significant impact on the EU’s development, in the development of the single market programme and eastward enlargement. If Brexit goes through, Britain will nevertheless maintain relations with the EU in all policy areas from agriculture to energy and foreign policy. Europeanization will remain a useful theoretical tool to analyse EU–UK relations even if the UK leaves the Union.

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Reviewer comment on MS of Tang et al., Drivers for spatial, temporal and long-term trends in atmospheric ammonia and ammonium in the UK.

10.5194/acp-2017-259-rc1 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

László Horváth

Keyword(s):

Reviewer Comment ◽

Atmospheric Ammonia ◽

Long Term Trends ◽

The Uk

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From Me to You: Time Together and Subjective Well-Being in the UK

Sociology ◽

10.1177/00380385211033147 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 003803852110331

Author(s):

Giacomo Vagni

Keyword(s):

Time Use ◽

Intimate Relationships ◽

Well Being ◽

Division Of Labour ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Family Time ◽

Mothers And Fathers ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Time Use Survey ◽

The Uk

Time together as a family is a crucial dimension of family life. However, its impact on personal happiness is not well understood. I use the United Kingdom Time Use Survey 2014–2015 to study how time spent with partners and children affects daily subjective well-being. Overall, I find that family time, couple time, and time alone with children contributes significantly to mothers’ and fathers’ well-being. I show that the activities that families share together mediate an important part of the enjoyment of time together but do not entirely explain this association. This suggests that beyond what families do together, families enjoy being together. I find that fathers enjoy family time more than mothers do. I demonstrate that the unequal division of labour during family time explains this discrepancy. I conclude by discussing the recent transformations of intimate relationships.

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Do Ethnic Minorities 'Stretch' Their Time? Evidence from the UK Time Use Survey

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1599008 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Anzelika Zaiceva ◽

Klaus F. Zimmermann

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Minorities ◽

Time Use ◽

Time Use Survey ◽

The Uk

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Parents’ Sleep Across Weekdays and Weekends: The Influence of Work, Housework, and Childcare Time

Journal of Family Issues ◽

10.1177/0192513x211017932 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 0192513X2110179

Author(s):

Leah Ruppanner ◽

Ben Maltby ◽

Belinda Hewitt ◽

David Maume

Keyword(s):

Young Children ◽

Time Use ◽

Mothers And Fathers ◽

American Time Use Survey ◽

Unmarried Mothers ◽

Childcare Time ◽

Unmarried Fathers ◽

Time Use Survey ◽

Sleep Deficit ◽

Time Demands

Children increase time demands with important consequences for sleep. Here, we test whether parents’ paid and unpaid time demands and the presence of young children equally reduce mothers’ and fathers’ sleep, comparing the married/cohabiting to unmarried. Applying data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS, 2003–2016), we find married/cohabiting mothers report less sleep when young children or multiple children are present; they are employed; their spouses are employed; and they spend more time in housework and childcare. By contrast, unmarried mothers report less sleep when children are present because of their larger domestic loads. For married/cohabiting fathers, the presence of multiple children is associated with less sleep but doing more housework results in more sleep. Finally, unmarried fathers’ employment time explains the association of children on their sleep. Parents report a sleep deficit relative to the childless but the reasons vary by gender and the co-presence of a partner.

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Expensive Childcare and Short School Days = Lower Maternal Employment and More Time in Childcare? Evidence from the American Time Use Survey

Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World ◽

10.1177/2378023119860277 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

pp. 237802311986027 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Leah Ruppanner ◽

Stephanie Moller ◽

Liana Sayer

Keyword(s):

Time Use ◽

Maternal Employment ◽

State Level ◽

Day Length ◽

Full Time ◽

American Time Use Survey ◽

Childcare Time ◽

Time Use Survey ◽

School Day ◽

Part Time

This study investigates the relationship between maternal employment and state-to-state differences in childcare cost and mean school day length. Pairing state-level measures with an individual-level sample of prime working-age mothers from the American Time Use Survey (2005–2014; n = 37,993), we assess the multilevel and time-varying effects of childcare costs and school day length on maternal full-time and part-time employment and childcare time. We find mothers’ odds of full-time employment are lower and part-time employment higher in states with expensive childcare and shorter school days. Mothers spend more time caring for children in states where childcare is more expensive and as childcare costs increase. Our results suggest that expensive childcare and short school days are important barriers to maternal employment and, for childcare costs, result in greater investments in childcare time. Politicians engaged in national debates about federal childcare policies should look to existing state childcare structures for policy guidance.

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Time Use During the Great Recession

The American Economic Review ◽

10.1257/aer.103.5.1664 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 103 (5) ◽

pp. 1664-1696 ◽

Cited By ~ 182

Author(s):

Mark Aguiar ◽

Erik Hurst ◽

Loukas Karabarbounis

Keyword(s):

Business Cycle ◽

Time Use ◽

Job Search ◽

Work Hours ◽

Home Production ◽

Market Work ◽

American Time Use Survey ◽

Time Use Survey ◽

Separable Preferences ◽

Using Data

Using data from the American Time Use Survey between 2003 and 2010, we document that home production absorbs roughly 30 percent of foregone market work hours at business cycle frequencies. Leisure absorbs roughly 50 percent of foregone market work hours, with sleeping and television watching accounting for most of this increase. We document significant increases in time spent on shopping, child care, education, and health. Job search absorbs between 2 and 6 percent of foregone market work hours. We discuss the implications of our results for business cycle models with home production and non-separable preferences. (JEL D31, E32, J22)

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Learning and practicing police craft

Journal of Organizational Ethnography ◽

10.1108/joe-07-2016-0012 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 276-286 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Mike Rowe ◽

Elizabeth Turner ◽

Geoff Pearson

Keyword(s):

Design Methodology ◽

Content Type ◽

The Core ◽

Policy Debates ◽

Changing Patterns ◽

Craft Skills ◽

The Uk ◽

Degree Level ◽

The Way

Purpose The authors consider current policy debates in the UK about the professionalisation of the police to respond to changing patterns of crime and, specifically, the suggestion that officers be educated to degree level. Drawing on the ethnographic evidence, the purpose of this paper is to focus attention on how officers learn, and continue to develop the applied, that is the craft aspects of the work of uniformed constables. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on a long-term ethnographic project observing officers during the course of their duties. The focus is on the use of discretion and of particular powers. But in the course of the research, the authors also observe the way officers behave and the way they talk about their job. Findings The authors suggest that, while there may be a role for degree qualifications, attention needs to be paid to the practices the authors observe, practices that have long been the core craft skills of uniformed officers. Originality/value The authors suggest that, despite the emergence of cybercrime and other new forms of crime/threat, the evidence suggests that much has not. Not least, crime is not the only focus of police work.

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