Pub Date : 2021-04-11DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2021.1911935
Claudia Sellmaier, Sarah R. Buckingham
ABSTRACT Meeting work and family demands can be challenging for all families, and even more challenging when raising a child with special health care needs. This current qualitative study interviewing 16 working fathers who care for a child with special health care needs, examines U.S. fathers’ experiences of work-family-community fit, adding to the still limited body of work-life research about fathers. Fathers were recruited through social media calls, blog posts, and email listservs of family support groups. Most participating fathers were employed full time, married/partnered, and cared on average for two children, ranging from 1 to 20 years in age. Thematic data analysis of in-depth telephone interviews demonstrated that fathers relied on work, family, and community resources to meet work and care demands. Fathers employed strategic decision-making selecting jobs that provided flexibility and access to resources such as health insurance. Formal and informal community supports were critical, but not always adequate or easy to access, resulting in the need for ongoing parental advocacy. Inadequate community and workplace resources were compensated by the family system. Work and care responsibilities did not only create stress but provided respite and positive experiences. Implications for future research, and practice and policy changes are being discussed.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-11DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2021.1911936
L. Cataldi, F. Tomatis, Giuliana Costa
ABSTRACT In many welfare regimes, families and communities are often considered as social policy solutions to the extent that they are called into action to provide support and care services. The resort to ‘family’ and ‘community’ seems to contrast the atomization of today’s society, but it entails two risks: first, the privatization of welfare; second, the exclusion of the most fragile and needy people, as well as individuals without a network. The COVID-19 pandemics have made these risks even more evident: the crisis has exacerbated the centrality of informal networks in producing welfare services and helps. These are the reasons why it is necessary to reflect on the need to primarily develop an individual – rather than a family and community – welfare.
{"title":"Even more in the pandemic and social emergency: for an individual welfare beyond the family and the community","authors":"L. Cataldi, F. Tomatis, Giuliana Costa","doi":"10.1080/13668803.2021.1911936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2021.1911936","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In many welfare regimes, families and communities are often considered as social policy solutions to the extent that they are called into action to provide support and care services. The resort to ‘family’ and ‘community’ seems to contrast the atomization of today’s society, but it entails two risks: first, the privatization of welfare; second, the exclusion of the most fragile and needy people, as well as individuals without a network. The COVID-19 pandemics have made these risks even more evident: the crisis has exacerbated the centrality of informal networks in producing welfare services and helps. These are the reasons why it is necessary to reflect on the need to primarily develop an individual – rather than a family and community – welfare.","PeriodicalId":47218,"journal":{"name":"Community Work & Family","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82948243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-15DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2021.1880049
R. Nieuwenhuis, M. Yerkes
ABSTRACT In this Voices article, we use emerging evidence to reflect on the consequences of Covid-19 for various aspects of workers' wellbeing. This brief review emphasises how COVID-19 exacerbates existing, well-understood inequalities, along the intersections of community, work, and family. Workers on the periphery of the labour market, including non-standard workers and the self-employed, but also women and low-paid workers, are experiencing significant losses in relation to work, working hours and/or wages. Even once the pandemic is contained, its impact will continue to be felt by many communities, workers, and families for months and years to come.
{"title":"Workers’ well-being in the context of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"R. Nieuwenhuis, M. Yerkes","doi":"10.1080/13668803.2021.1880049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2021.1880049","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this Voices article, we use emerging evidence to reflect on the consequences of Covid-19 for various aspects of workers' wellbeing. This brief review emphasises how COVID-19 exacerbates existing, well-understood inequalities, along the intersections of community, work, and family. Workers on the periphery of the labour market, including non-standard workers and the self-employed, but also women and low-paid workers, are experiencing significant losses in relation to work, working hours and/or wages. Even once the pandemic is contained, its impact will continue to be felt by many communities, workers, and families for months and years to come.","PeriodicalId":47218,"journal":{"name":"Community Work & Family","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74144961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-15DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2021.1880048
L. den Dulk, Jennifer E. Swanberg
There has been a substantial growth in academic interest in how the wellbeing of people is affected by community, work and family and their intersections The special issue opens with an examination of how "front-line" workers exposed to a range of intense work demands navigate their daily work and non-work lives Working longer hours increased work-family guilt among couples with more egalitarian beliefs but working longer was not related to work-family guilt in parents with more traditional gender role beliefs [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Community, Work & Family is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use This abstract may be abridged No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract (Copyright applies to all Abstracts )
{"title":"Wellbeing and the community, work & family interface","authors":"L. den Dulk, Jennifer E. Swanberg","doi":"10.1080/13668803.2021.1880048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2021.1880048","url":null,"abstract":"There has been a substantial growth in academic interest in how the wellbeing of people is affected by community, work and family and their intersections The special issue opens with an examination of how \"front-line\" workers exposed to a range of intense work demands navigate their daily work and non-work lives Working longer hours increased work-family guilt among couples with more egalitarian beliefs but working longer was not related to work-family guilt in parents with more traditional gender role beliefs [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Community, Work & Family is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use This abstract may be abridged No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract (Copyright applies to all Abstracts )","PeriodicalId":47218,"journal":{"name":"Community Work & Family","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76889112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-15DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2020.1868408
Alexis Swendener
ABSTRACT Match or mismatch between the demands of work, home, and the broader community shape individuals’ well-being, leading to some recognition of mismatch as a public health issue. Using a life-course framework, I draw on farm families as an illustrative case to explore how couple work arrangements influence individual well-being. Farm couples face many demands within a family-based business, including various work and family roles in a changing farming economy. Using survey data from women on family farms in the U.S., I explore the association between perceiving incongruence in actual and desired couple work arrangements and women’s mental health. Results indicate that women who perceive any type of work incongruence (their own, their partner’s, or both) do report worse mental health. Specifically, women’s own individual work mismatch is significantly associated with increases in depressive symptoms while shared incongruence or partner-only incongruence is not. In addition, feeling control over one’s life and being satisfied with the viability of farming for a livable family income are important pathways in understanding how incongruence is associated with mental health. Broadly, I highlight that being the only member of a couple working an undesired role may be particularly harmful for women’s well-being.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-10DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2021.1885346
Soohyun Kim
ABSTRACT Paid leave for family and medical reasons is an important workplace benefit for older workers with eldercare responsibilities by offering time off from work to deal with the need for caregiving, but little is known about its effects on eldercare provision. I study the association between employer-provided paid leave and eldercare provision among workers aged 45 or over, using the 2011 and 2017–18 American Time Use Survey and its Leave Modules. Among various types of leave, paid leave for eldercare was the only type of leave associated with an increase in any care provision by six percentage points. The positive relationship was stronger for care provided less than daily than care provided daily. The significant, but small, increase in care provision associated with paid leave for eldercare suggests the role of paid leave in facilitating care for older adults among middle- and old-aged workers.
家庭和医疗带薪休假是承担养老责任的老年员工的一项重要的职场福利，它提供了休假时间来处理照顾老人的需要，但对其对养老服务的影响知之甚少。我使用2011年和2017-18年美国时间使用调查(American Time Use Survey)及其休假模块(leave Modules)，研究了45岁及以上员工中雇主提供带薪休假与养老服务之间的关系。在各种休假中，照顾老人的带薪休假是唯一一种与任何护理服务增加6个百分点有关的休假。每日护理少于每日护理者与每日护理者的正相关关系更强。与老年护理带薪休假相关的护理提供的显着但很小的增长表明，带薪休假在促进中老年人护理方面的作用。
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Pub Date : 2021-02-03DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2021.1880372
S. Bekaert
ABSTRACT This paper reflexively considers the muted narratives of a desire for pregnancy and parenthood in teenaged women's accounts of their journey to motherhood after deciding on abortion with their first, unexpected, pregnancy. By contrast their accounts were replete with good citizenship narratives that attested to pregnancy avoidance. Through the use of the Listening Guide, a feminist, layered, reflexive approach to data analysis, these accounts are considered in the wider social and cultural ‘narratives’ in the interview data, and the interviewee/interviewer relationship. It is suggested that the young women draw on dominant cultural tropes of the good teenager and mother, shaped by the desire to present themselves to the interviewer as acceptable citizens. It is debated whether the young women choose relative silence regarding their growing desire for pregnancy to avoid judgment in a society that problematises young motherhood, or are silenced by the same dominant discourse. Discussion considers what such a muted narrative might represent in a political and socio-cultural context. With narrow definitions of what is acceptable in the teenage years, and for motherhood, the young women's desire to present as acceptable may eclipse valuable contextual considerations that are important to practitioners and policy makers in providing effective support.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-02DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2021.1879021
Chrissy Coley, Srividya Sheshadri, S. Devanathan, R. R. Bhavani
ABSTRACT This paper presents a theoretical framework of women’s empowerment developed from an intervention in South India. The framework is unique in that, in addition to common empowerment indicators, it emphasizes the relational aspect of empowerment including the role of men, family, and gendered power structures—and the flexibility of these to change. This is especially pertinent to India, which has struggled to meet global targets for indicators of improved gender equality. The mixed-methods study found evidence that women who felt they had more support from their husbands and family also had more success in the project, and that family support was an overall indicator for empowerment. This paper’s contribution is in reframing women’s empowerment to better represent the often overlooked structural factors that could intrinsically resist or counter the establishment of new states of social equality and stability, specifically the integral role of men and the wider family in the women’s empowerment process.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-14DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2021.1873106
Rocío Ruiz-Martínez, Katherina Kuschel, I. Pastor
ABSTRACT Although the high levels in Latin America, women’s necessity-driven entrepreneurship is a field that has been little explored. Contemporary research suggests that entrepreneurs may experience less work-life conflict than other workers, but that gender differences mean that women are at a disadvantage in terms of uses of time and the sexual division of labor. We explore how 20 Chilean craftswomen experience their (productive) work time. The content analysis of group interviews shows that these socially at-risk women entrepreneurs achieve wellbeing at work by entering a state of flow. They describe their experience as personal time, which resembles leisure more than it does actual work. This source of emotional wellbeing seems to be a personal strategy that helps them cope with their precarious situation. Their boundaries between work and personal time are blurred. Our findings illustrate how uses of time can be perceived differently in different contexts. We put particular emphasis on the restorative nature of personal time and the need for further research in this area from a gender approach.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-06DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2020.1868409
H. Lingard, M. Turner
ABSTRACT A qualitative investigation of the relationship between the experience of bodily pain and work-life balance was conducted in a sample of manual/non-managerial workers in the Australian construction industry. Participants were purposefully selected for the study on the basis that they reported experiencing ongoing bodily pain. Thematic analysis of the interview data revealed that participants perceive their pain to have substantial impacts on their ability to participate successfully in family life and in social and leisure activities, indicating that the experience of bodily pain has a negative impact on the work-life balance of these manual/non-managerial construction workers. Participants regularly seek remedial treatment outside of work and adapt their activities in order to cope with their pain. Results suggest that for workers in physically demanding jobs, work-life conflict may extend beyond a time-, strain- and behaviour-based model and include a physical capacity component. The research also proposes a new form of time-based work-life conflict which occurs through an indirect pathway through which pain negatively impacts time available for non-work activities. These findings suggest that organisational work-life balance initiatives should also consider the physicality of work, which can contribute, through musculoskeletal pain, to work-life conflict.
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