{"title":"Women's Work Preferences: The Importance of Home-Based Work","authors":"S. Kelley, C. Kelley","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1322386","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We explore women's preferences for each of five work options when they have young children, specifically: staying home without a job, working part-time, a part-time paid job that can done from home, working full-time, and a full-time job that can be done from home. Using a nationally representative sample of Australian citizens, we find that most women prefer home-based work over conventional away-from-home options, rating home-based work an average of 16 points out of 100 higher. If they could follow their preferences, fewer would stay home without a job, fewer would work outside the home, many more would work part-time from home, and many more full-time from home. Structural equation analyses show that the strongest influence on these preferences is perceived conflict between a woman's career and her family life.","PeriodicalId":106212,"journal":{"name":"Labor: Demographics & Economics of the Family","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2009-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Labor: Demographics & Economics of the Family","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1322386","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We explore women's preferences for each of five work options when they have young children, specifically: staying home without a job, working part-time, a part-time paid job that can done from home, working full-time, and a full-time job that can be done from home. Using a nationally representative sample of Australian citizens, we find that most women prefer home-based work over conventional away-from-home options, rating home-based work an average of 16 points out of 100 higher. If they could follow their preferences, fewer would stay home without a job, fewer would work outside the home, many more would work part-time from home, and many more full-time from home. Structural equation analyses show that the strongest influence on these preferences is perceived conflict between a woman's career and her family life.