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How Employed Mothers in Australia Find Time for Both Market Work and Childcare

Lyn Craig (lcraig@unsw.edu.au)

Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2007, vol. 28, issue 1, 69-87

Abstract: Time use studies find that employed mothers reduce their parental childcare time by much less than an hour for every hour they spend in market work. This paper uses data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Time Use Survey 1997 (4,059 randomly selected households) to investigate how employed mothers manage to avoid a one-for-one trade-off between work and childcare. It compares the time allocation of employed fathers, employed mothers and non-employed mothers and finds that parents use non-parental childcare to reschedule as well as to replace their own childcare, that employed mothers reschedule activities from weekdays to weekends or to earlier or later in the day, and spend less time than other mothers in housework, childfree leisure and personal care. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007

Keywords: Childcare; Gender; Non-parental care; Time use; Work-family balance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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