Gender differences in working at home and time use patterns: evidence from Australia

Abigail Powell and Lyn Craig
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Abigail Powell: UNSW Australia, Australia
Lyn Craig: UNSW Australia, Australia

Work, Employment & Society, 2015, vol. 29, issue 4, 571-589

Abstract: Despite a wealth of research on working at home, few studies have examined the effects of working at home in relation to its regularity and fewer still have used time use studies to do so. Using data from the 2006 Australian Time Use Survey this article investigates the association between working at home, gender and time use, in relation to amount of time spent in paid work, unpaid work and recreational labour, as well as multi-tasking, fragmentation of time and scheduling flexibility. It examines time use patterns according to whether employees do no work at home or whether they work at home rarely, occasionally or regularly. Results show there is an association between working at home and time in paid and unpaid work and that this differs by the regularity of working at home and gender. Working at home does not create more time for recreational labour, although it may help women juggle work and family.

Keywords: employees; gender; homework; telework; time use; work and family; work at home; work-life balance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1177/0950017014568140

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