Long leaves, child well-being, and gender equality

Politics and Society

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 350-359

  Bergmann, Barbara R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Child well being; Gender equality; Occupational segregation; Parental leave; Work family conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749086545     PISSN: 00323292     EISSN: 15527514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0032329208320564     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (18)

1. Rickard Eriksson, " Parental Leave in Sweden: The Effects of the Second Daddy Month " Working Paper Series no. 9 ( Stockholm: Stockholm University Swedish Institute for Social Research, 2005 ).
2. Barbara R. Bergmann, The Economic Emergence of Women, 2 nd ed. (New York: Palgrave, 2005). See also Suzanne M. Bianchi, Melissa A. Milkie, Liana C. Sayer, and John P. Robinson, "Is Anyone Doing the Housework? Trends in the Gender Division of Household Labor," Social Forces 79, no. 1 (2000). 191-228.
3. Ericksson, "Parental Leave," reports that in Sweden many mothers go back to work when subsidized daycare becomes available, suggesting that mothers as well as fathers prefer work to staying home with young children.
4. Richard Anker, Gender and Jobs: Sex Segregation and Occupations in the World. (Geneva: International Labor Office, 1998). See also Juan J. Dolado, Florentino Felgueroso, and Juan F. Jimeno, "Where Do Women Work? Analysing Patterns in Occupational Segregation by Gender." ( CEPR Research Network, 2003 ).
5. Joan Williams, "It's In Their Interest, Too," Chronicle of Higher Education, August 31, 2006.
6. The Fair Labor Standards Act, passed in 1938, required overtime pay if weekly hours exceeded forty. Thus an eight-hour day, five days a week became the standard.
7. Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson, The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004 ).
8. Harriet B. Presser, Working in a 24/7 Economy: Challenges for American Families ( New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2003 ).
9. Bergmann, Economic Emergence, 205-07.
10. NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, "Does Amount of Time Spent in Child Care Predict Socioemotional Adjustment During the Transition to Kindergarten?" Child Development 74 (2003). 976-1005.
11. NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, " Trajectories of Physical Aggression from Toddlerhood to Middle Childhood: Predictors, Correlates, and Outcomes, " SRCD Monographs 69, no. 4 (2004). vii - 146.
12. NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, "Amount of Time, " Table 8, p. 997.
13. NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, " Trajectories of Physical Aggression, " p. 48.
14. Ibid. Trajectories of Physical Aggression, 66.
15. Ibid. Trajectories of Physical Aggression, 109.
16. NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, " Child-Care Effect Sizes for the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, " American Psychologist 61, no. 2 (2006). 99-116.
17. Ibid. American Psychologist, 114.
18. K. Alison Clarke-Stewart, " Infant Day Care: Maligned or Malignant? " American Psychologist 44 (1989). 266-73.