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This paper analyzes gender inequalities in leisure time within coresident couples with and without children at home in five European countries to evaluate the gendered parental impact on leisure [...]

The researchers further find that the emphasis on work-life balance disappears at the managerial level.  [Neil Franklin – Workplace Insight, 4 December 2023.] READ MORE

Balancing work and family life may become easier for growing families in South Africa after a ground-breaking parental leave judgment in the High Court declared certain provisions of the Basic [...]

Women spend more time on unpaid work, face a strong motherhood penalty, encounter barriers to entrepreneurship and fare worse in labour markets overall. They are also under-represented in [...]

Women in Work Index shows progress towards gender equality at work across the OECD has been exceedingly slow over the last 10 years, with a persistent gender pay gap of 14%, down only 2.5 [...]

As many of us worked from home during the pandemic, it became evident that things were not particularly equal, even among dual-earner couples. [Adi Gaskell – Forbes, 25 February 2023.] READ MORE

Parental engagement is a more powerful variable to explain gender differences in academic productivity than the mere existence of children, and that policies should factor these labor [...]

Gender differences in time use by age groups from the Multinational Time Use Study covering the period from 2005 to 2015. [Joan García Román and Pablo Gracia – Plos One, 9 March 2022.] READ MORE

Taking gender considerations into account when designing and implementing green recovery measures can contribute both to reducing gender inequalities and achieving environmental objectives. [...]

The United States is the only wealthy country in the world without a national program for paid parental leave. [Joe Pinsker – The Atlantic, 9 November 2021.] READ MORE