Cultural and Institutional Factors Shaping Mothers' Employment and Working Hours in Postindustrial Countries

Boeckmann, Irene; Misra, Joya; Budig, Michelle J.

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“…They also construct the typology with a dynamic perspective, as aspirations can change over the life course. A more recent study by Boeckmann et al (2014) confirms the importance of looking at cultural norms regarding maternal employment in addition to individual and system characteristics.…”

Section: Work Trajectoriesmentioning

confidence: 93%

Changing Lone Parents, Changing Life Courses

Bernardi

Mortelmans

Larenza

2017

Lone Parenthood in the Life Course

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The socio-demographic profile of lone parents has changed in the last decades. Being mostly widowed men and women or young single mothers until the 1970s, lone parents are nowadays mostly divorced and separated parents, even though they are still by and large mothers rather than fathers. As a consequence, the experience of lone parenthood has also dramatically changed. Less objects of pity or stigmatized with shame, lone parents and their children are more than ever bound by legal arrangements to the other parent and are caught in more dynamic family trajectories.There are at least two remarkable changes that certainly need to be addressed by research on lone parenthood: its boundaries and its diversity. Both aspects are connected and have potential implications for lone parents and their children. First, the diversity and complexity of legal and residential arrangements of parents and children make it difficult to establish the borders between a full-time and a part-time one-parent household. When child custody or parental authority are shared, can we still talk about lone parents? Children circulate more and more between two or more parental households after separation, and more than one parent may be financially and legally responsible for them. One direct consequence of such changes in the

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Section: Work Trajectoriesmentioning

confidence: 93%

Changing Lone Parents, Changing Life Courses

Bernardi

Mortelmans

Larenza

2017

Lone Parenthood in the Life Course

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“…If they were born in Switzerland, the country of origin of the second-generation migrants corresponds to their parents' country of origin. Such grouping reflects, as much as it was possible given the small sample size, the patterns of FLFP across regions, which are lowest in Mediterranean countries and highest Eastern Europe (Boeckmann et al 2015).…”

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“…The literature on the labour market activities of women of majority populations has mainly focused on women's efforts to reconcile work and family life, the wage gap between men and women, and the wage gap between women based on their motherhood status (e.g., Boeckmann et al 2015). Although these studies took into account cultural factors by comparing different countries, most did not account for cultural heterogeneity within a single national population by controlling for immigrant status or citizenship.…”

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“…Following the literature on labour market participation among (lone) mothers (Baker et al 1999;Boeckmann et al 2015), we included a number of control variables and possible confounders of the main association under study (for descriptive statistics, see Table 7.1). The first group of covariates were the individual characteristics of the respondent: age was used as a categorical variable (20-29, 30-35, 36-44, or 45+).…”

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“…First, women are generally disadvantaged relative to men. Second, mothers of young children are less active on the labour market than women in general (Boeckmann et al 2015). Third, lone mothers who work may experience particularly high levels of role incompatibility as workers and primary care-givers.…”

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Migrant Status and Lone Motherhood – Risk Factors of Female Labour Force Participation in Switzerland

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Bernardi

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Association of paternal factors with mothers’ employment postchildbirth

Dhungel

Kachi

Kato

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Journal of Occupational Health

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ObjectivesThe demand on Japanese women to fulfill their dual roles as mothers and labor force participants leads to a subsequent reduction of their employment hours, switching of occupations, or quitting the labor force. This study aims to examine paternal factors associated with mothers' employment status 18 months after childbirth.MethodsWe used data from the 2010 cohort of the Longitudinal Survey of Newborns conducted in Japan. We restricted our analysis to 10 712 mothers who had full‐time employment 1 year before childbirth. A logistic regression analysis was conducted to assess paternal factors associated with mothers' employment after childbirth.ResultsOne‐third of the mothers with full‐time employment before childbirth were not working full‐time 18 months after delivery. We found that high childcare involvement (score 13–18) of fathers (OR, 1.20; 95% CI, 1.01–1.43) and fathers with part‐time employment (OR, 1.59; 95% CI, 1.12–2.26) were associated with higher odds of mothers' full‐time employment. Fathers' weekly work of ≥60 h (OR, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.71–0.88) and higher annual income decreased the odds ratios by over 20%.ConclusionsFathers' work arrangements and involvement in childcare play a key role in helping mothers resume employment postchildbirth.

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Cultural and Institutional Factors Shaping Mothers' Employment and Working Hours in Postindustrial Countries

Cited by 213 publications

References 50 publications

Changing Lone Parents, Changing Life Courses

Changing Lone Parents, Changing Life Courses

Migrant Status and Lone Motherhood – Risk Factors of Female Labour Force Participation in Switzerland

Association of paternal factors with mothers’ employment postchildbirth

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