Leisure Time and Parenting in Europe: a More Difficult Equation for Mothers?
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 [...]
Women value work-life balance more than men – unless they are a manager
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
South Africa: Parental leave High Court ruling opens the way for increased gender equality
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 [...]
Joining Forces for Gender Equality — What is Holding us Back?
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 [...]
Closing the Gender Pay Gap for good: A focus on the motherhood penalty
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 [...]
The Gender Divide When Working From Home
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
The relationship between parenting engagement and academic performance
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 across age groups in ten industrialized countries
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
