生活到工作(在家):过度工作、远程工作和性别对工作和家庭的双重奉献

IF 4.4 2区 社会学 Q1 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR Work and Occupations Pub Date : 2023-10-23 DOI:10.1177/07308884231207772
Kim de Laat
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专家认为,当代北美工作文化的特点是过度工作。在上个世纪的大部分时间里,许多父母要么投身于事业,要么投身于家庭。这些“相互竞争的奉献”作为一种理解世界的文化模式,缓解了过度工作和家庭生活之间的紧张关系。对84名IT工作者的采访数据被用来检验对工作和家庭的投入是否仍然是在职父母的对立面。我发现受访者表示,他们对家庭和事业都很投入,我称之为双重投入。灵活的工作政策——远程工作和弹性工作时间——促进了这种双重奉献的支持,使那些具有双重奉献的人能够完成工作与生活的融合。然而,男性认为远程工作可以让他们有更多的时间照顾孩子,而女性则认为远程工作可以让她们有更多的时间工作。这些发现促进了我们对性别不平等与工作和家庭时间体验维度之间关系的理解:实现双重奉献的做法,特别是远程工作,帮助父母保持时间取向,使过度工作更容易接受。无论哪种情况,工作场所都是赢家,因为女性的工作时间更长,而男性不会牺牲带薪工作时间来承担更多的照顾孩子或做家务。
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Living to Work (from Home): Overwork, Remote Work, and Gendered Dual Devotion to Work and Family
Contemporary North American work culture is characterized by experts as one of overwork. Throughout much of the previous century, many parents devoted themselves either to their careers, or to their families. These “competing devotions” served as a cultural model for making sense of the world and alleviated the tension between overwork and family life. Data from interviews with 84 IT workers are used to examine whether devotion to work and family is still experienced as oppositional for working parents. I find that interviewees report feeling devoted both to their families and their careers, which I refer to as dual devotion. Such espousals of dual devotion are facilitated by the use of flexible work policies—remote work and flextime—which enable those with dual devotions to accomplish work–life integration. However, whereas men perceive remote work as allowing them to dedicate more time to childcare, women perceive it as allowing them to dedicate more time to work. These findings advance our understanding of the relationship between gender inequality and the experiential dimensions of work and family time: the practices that enable dual devotions, in particular remote work, help parents maintain an orientation to time that makes overwork more palatable. In either case, workplaces win since women are working long hours and men are not sacrificing paid work hours to take on more childcare or housework.
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期刊介绍: For over 30 years, Work and Occupations has published rigorous social science research on the human dynamics of the workplace, employment, and society from an international, interdisciplinary perspective. Work and Occupations provides you with a broad perspective on the workplace, examining international approaches to work-related issues as well as insights from scholars in a variety of fields, including: anthropology, demography, education, government administration, history, industrial relations, labour economics, management, psychology, and sociology. In addition to regular features including research notes, review essays, and book reviews.
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