Reconstructing the Borders and the Definitions of Home and Work in the Context of Telecommuting in Poland

Gądecki, Jacek; Jewdokimow, Marcin; Żadkowska, Magdalena

doi:10.17356/ieejsp.v2i3.166

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“…The situation of parent-teleworkers is different, since they cannot easily isolate themselves from their children when they want to engage in paid work. They usually need to set some boundaries between time for paid work and time for other obligations (see: Gądecki et al 2016Gądecki et al , 2017, but the situation of having a small child at home makes this particularly difficult.…”

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Paid Work and Parenting

Suwada

2021

Parenting and Work in Poland

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This chapter is devoted to the issue of paid work. Despite analyses dominating today that perceive paid work as an obstacle to parenting, I argue that paid work is an important obligation arising from parenthood. My analysis indicates that becoming a parent has consequences on how individuals perceive paid work. It becomes more important and there is a bigger focus on the level of earnings. Polish parents feel an enormous economic pressures in connection to having children. Yet the attitudes of men and women to paid work are different. In case of men there is a greater pressure to keep paid work and have a decent salary. Whereas women more often perceive paid work as a source of satisfaction. On the one hand, they also feel pressure to be active in the labour market and to bring money home, but on the other hand they confine more attention to the fact that paid work should be satisfactory. What is more, the chapter discusses these gender differences in the context of economic inequalities, as well as differences between the situation of single and coupled parents.

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confidence: 99%