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- Title
Aspects of Workplace Flexibility and Mothers' Satisfaction with Their Husbands' Contributions to Household Labor.
- Authors
Alger, Vanessa M.; Crowley, Jocelyn Elise
- Abstract
This article explores whether mothers' perceived control over their own workplace flexibility options has any relationship to their satisfaction with their husbands' contributions to household labor in the United States. We hypothesize that flexibility enhances their ability to more adeptly engage in role management in multiple life areas, thus enabling them to be more satisfied with their partners' domestic input as well. We use a unique data set of 1,078 randomly sampled women involved in mothers' organizations that generally attract members based on their current level of participation in the paid labor market. We then link nine distinct workplace flexibility policies with mothers' satisfaction related to their husbands' participation in all household tasks, as well as a subset of female-typed tasks. We find that across both arrays of tasks, mothers with more perceived control over work-related schedule predictability and those that had the ability to secure employment again after an extended break had higher levels of satisfaction with their husbands' participation in household labor. In addition, short-term time off to address unexpected needs was important for all tasks considered together only.
- Subjects
WORK-life balance; FAMILY-work relationship; ADAPTABILITY (Personality); SPOUSES; GENDER role; HOUSEHOLDS; MARITAL satisfaction; ROLE satisfaction; MARITAL quality
- Publication
Sociological Inquiry, 2012, Vol 82, Issue 1, p78
- ISSN
0038-0245
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1475-682X.2011.00403.x