Work-life experiences in rapidly changing national contexts: Structural misalignment, comparisons and choice overload as explanatory mechanisms

Trefalt, Špela; Drnovšek, Mateja; Svetina-Nabergoj, Anja; Adlešič, Renata Valentina

doi:10.1016/j.emj.2013.04.006

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“…Structuration theory recognizes that individual action and social structure impact one another (Gauntlett, 2002;Trefalt et al, 2013). Accordingly, the social context influences individuals, but individual action can also change the nature of social structures.…”

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confidence: 98%

Meta-analysis of work–family conflict mean differences: Does national context matter?

Allen

French

Dumani

et al. 2015

Journal of Vocational Behavior

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Section: Accepted Manuscriptmentioning

confidence: 98%

Meta-analysis of work–family conflict mean differences: Does national context matter?

Allen

French

Dumani

et al. 2015

Journal of Vocational Behavior

152

135

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“…If the state and workplace can enact a range of policies aimed at reducing work-family conflicts, more women can achieve a better work-life balance and even work-life enrichment (Trefalt et al 2013;Skrypnek and Fast 1996), benefiting both women and men. For example, at-home fathers come to value their increased involvement in childcare in ways that reduce gender differences in parenting; this has the potential to change the company institution when they reenter the labor force.…”

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“…This family-employment nexus underscores the socioeconomic security and social status of women and has therefore always been one of the central issues in feminism (Robila 2012;Fischlmayr and Kollinger 2010;Wattisa et al 2013;Marian 2011;Trefalt et al 2013). In the 1980s, research in developed countries focused on the conflict between family and work faced by career women (Friedan 1981;Jeffrey 1985).…”

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“Full-time wife” and the change of gender order in the Chinese City

Ying¹,

Walker

2015

J. Chin. Sociol.

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Work and family are the most critical of the contested terrains that determine the status of women in the gender order, the differing pattern of inequality between men and women. "Full-time wife" is a relatively new label in China, emerging only in the late twentieth century. It corresponds to the term "housewife" used in the 1950s and 1960s. Based on 59 in-depth interviews carried out between 2006 and 2007 in Guangzhou City, this article focuses on "full-time wives" and the dilemma they face in the conflict between family and work, an issue that is essential to an understanding of changing gender relations in China. The paper argues that a combination of the traditional Chinese gender order, improving wages of the family under the "socialist" market economy, and the rolling back of state protection was a key reason for the emergence of the full-time wife phenomenon. The analysis of the position of the full-time wife demonstrates how rolling back state protection affected women and specifically how it undermined the admittedly inconsistent advances in gender equality made in the previous era. For example, women now experience many new kinds of subordination, both in the labor market and the family. China's market economy requires social policies that aim to improve the work-family balance in order to prevent or mitigate the further development of the market-constructed gender order.

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“…Poleg vloge posameznika in delovne organizacija pa raziskave [18] [19] [29] kažejo, da na usklajevanje dela in družine pomembno vpliva tudi država. Država s svojimi politikami in ukrepi ustvarja bolj ali manj ugodne pogoje za usklajevanje delovnega in družinskega življenja.…”

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Work-Life Balance as a Life Quality Indicator

Žnidaršič¹,

Marič²

2018

Integrated Politics of Research and Innovations

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Eden od pomembnih dejavnikov, ki vplivajo na kakovost življenja je tudi usklajeno delovno in družinsko življenje. Na uspešnost usklajevanja delovnega in družinskega življenja vplivajo številni dejavniki tako na ravni posameznika kot na ravni organizacije, v kateri je zaposlen in tudi države, ki s svojimi politikami ustvarja bolj ali manj ugodne pogoje za usklajevanje dela in družine. Na podlagi kritičnega pregleda literature in predhodnih raziskav predstavljamo celovito analizo koncepta usklajevanja dela in družine kot pokazatelja kakovosti življenja.

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Work-life experiences in rapidly changing national contexts: Structural misalignment, comparisons and choice overload as explanatory mechanisms

Cited by 27 publications

References 83 publications

Meta-analysis of work–family conflict mean differences: Does national context matter?

Meta-analysis of work–family conflict mean differences: Does national context matter?

“Full-time wife” and the change of gender order in the Chinese City

Work-Life Balance as a Life Quality Indicator

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