Gender Differentiation in Paid and Unpaid Work during the Transition to Parenthood

Gender Inequality in the Life Cycle: The Effect of Parenthood on the Division of Unpaid Work

The aim of this paper is to test whether younger generations are more egalitarian or whether their more gender-balanced behaviour is due to factors associated with the life cycle. Data used in the analysis are from the two editions of the Spanish Time Use Surveys carried out in 2002-2003 and 2009-2010. The unit of analysis is the couple, and we measure the degree of equality within the couple u...

Statistical Analysis of Time Spent on Unpaid and Paid Work

The Relationship between Transition to Parenthood and Marital Satisfaction in Housewives and Employed Women

Background & aim: Birth of the first child is one of the major life events for every woman. This event can make extensive changes in couple’s life, which lead to the reduction of marital satisfaction or incidence of conflicts in wifehood and parenthood. Regarding this, the present study was conducted to determine the relationship between transition to parenthood and ma...

Shift Work, Role Overload, and the Transition to Parenthood.

This article examines how the work hours, work schedules, and role overload of working-class couples are related to depressive symptoms and relationship conflict across the transition to parenthood. Data are from 132 dual-earner couples interviewed 5 times across the transition. Multilevel modeling analyses revealed that working evening or night shifts, as opposed to day shifts, was related to ...

Commitment with or without a stick of paid work: Comparison of paid and unpaid workers in a nonprofit organization

The aim of this study is to investigate whether nonpaid volunteers have other reasons to be a member of an organization than paid workers. Volunteers are assumed to be hard to manage, because there is no ‘‘stick of a paid contract’’ to keep them in line. Therefore, we studied different dimensions (i.e., affective, normative, and continuance) of organizational commitment of volunteers and paid w...