Self-employment, work-family time and the gender division of labour
Does being self-employed, as opposed to being an employee, make a difference to how parents with young children can balance work and family demands? Does self-employment facilitate more equal gender divisions of labour? This article uses the Australian Time Use Survey to identify associations between self-employment and mothers' and fathers' time in paid work, domestic labour and childcare and when during the day they perform these activities. The time self-employed mothers devote to each activity differs substantially from that of employee mothers, while fathers' time is relatively constant a ... Show more
Authors: Craig, Lyn; Powell, Abigail; Cortis, Natasha
Published: Los Angeles, California, Sage Publications, 2012
Resource type: Article
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