Tanja Van Der Lippe
Biographic Data
| ID | 101588 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tanja Van Der Lippe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tanja |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Der Lippe |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DER LIPPE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5245-4659 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 105 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1212 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 104 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 18 |
Climate change and community, work, and family
Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of the twenty-first century, but it has not yet been fully integrated into research on community, work, and family. Although climate change is often framed as a technical or environmental problem, this Voices article argues that it is fundamentally social in nature, shaped by norms, institutions, identities, and everyday practices. Using three examples, the article shows how social science the…
Perspectives on the future: Combining work and family care in 2040
The work-family interface is in constant flux and faced with numerous future challenges. Yet much work-family scholarship problematizes current work-family issues or analyses past experiences with little detailed consideration of the risks and opportunities individuals are likely to encounter in the future. This perspective is needed to challenge and extend current work-family scholarship to how external developments are likely to affect the ways…
Hourly wages and wage security in domestic work: The role of household, worker and relationship characteristics
Purpose It is often assumed that households that hire a domestic worker pay low and insecure wages. Given the high incidence of undeclared work in the sector, reliable insights into the wages that households pay in practice remain scarce. This study contributes to the literature by describing the wages that households pay to domestic workers and by identifying sources of wage differences across households. To provide a complete description of wag…
Family-friendly policies and workplace supports: A meta-analysis of their effects on career, job, and work-family outcomes
Today, many individuals face the challenge of combining work and family responsibilities. To help employees tackle the issues they face when juggling work and family, organizations often provide formal family-friendly policies. In addition, other people in the workplace, such as supervisors and coworkers, can support employees in an informal way in work and family reconciliation. In this study, we provide the most comprehensive meta-analytic revi…
Workplace variation in migrant job searches: Cohesion unites, bonuses do not divide
Dutch workplaces suffer from labor shortages, and interest in diverse workforces is growing, making the retention of employees with a migration background vital. Yet, migrant employees continue to experience exclusion in the workplace, making them more likely to job search than non-migrant employees. This article is novel because it locates drivers of migrant job searches at the organizational level and examines the impact of indicators of relati…
Workplace friendships of men and women: Examining employee gender, manager gender and gender composition in European workplaces
Purpose The study investigates gender differences in workplace friendships, focusing on the number of friends, the gender of friends and the extent of same-gender friendships accounting for workplace characteristics shaping these differences. Design/methodology/approach We used three-level data (employees nested in departments and organizations) from six different sectors across nine countries and multilevel mixed-effects models to test the hypot…
Women shaping behavioural science
Understanding sustainable cooperation
Societies need cooperation that is sustainable. We argue that understanding the mechanisms of sustainable cooperation requires a connection between current analyses of individual interactions and their institutional contexts, and studies of long-term patterns of cooperation at the societal level. We propose a focus on where institutional level arrangements connect with individual level decision making, namely where people interact in families, co…
The Mental Health of Female and Male Homemakers: A Longitudinal Study using Dutch Population Register Data
Homemakers-those staying at home while their partner works-often report higher life satisfaction and happiness than workers, but it remains to be seen whether this holds for their mental health. We investigate how the mental health of homemakers compares to their mental health while they were working, considering gender, parenthood, and homemaking duration. Using longitudinal Dutch (medical) register data from 2006 to 2021, we apply fixed-effects…
The emergence of citizen collectives for care: The role of social cohesion
There is considerable variability in the extent to which neighborhoods organize care services collectively. Partly, this may be attributable to differences in the prevalence of neighborhood identity, which would imply that an increasing reliance on citizen collectives may increase inequality in access to healthcare. Further research should emphasize combining community-level information with data on individual participation in care collectives to…
Digital Communication in work and family life in Europe
Abendroth A, van der Lippe T, Treas J. Digital Communication in work and family life in Europe. Community, Work & Family . 2024;27(5):565-587
Flextime/Flexspace for All in the Organization? A Study of the Availability, Use, and Consequences of Flexible Work Arrangements for Low and High SES Employees in Nine European Countries
This article investigates the relationship between employee socioeconomic status (SES) and the availability, use, and consequences for employees of flexible work arrangements (working from home and flexible starting and finishing times). Multi-level analyses based on the European Sustainable Workforce Survey (11,011 employees nested in 869 teams at 259 organizations in nine European countries) reveal a negative relationship between low SES employ…
Profiles Among Women Without a Paid Job and Social Benefits: An Intersectional Perspective Using Dutch Population Register Data
Despite their potential vulnerability and untapped work potential, research on the group of women without a paid job and social benefits is limited. This study is the first to identify profiles among women in this group based on their intersecting economic, sociodemographic and contextual characteristics. A cluster analysis conducted on Dutch population register data from 2019 challenges previous research that lumped women without a paid job and …
Not leaving your unsatisfactory job: Analyzing Female, Migrant, Elderly and Lower-Educated Employees
Purpose Employees facing challenges in their careers – i.e. female, migrant, elderly and lower-educated employees – might expect job searches to have a low likelihood of success and might therefore more often stay in unsatisfactory positions. The goal of this study is to discover inequalities in job mobility for these employees. Design/methodology/approach We rely on a large sample of Dutch public sector employees ( N = 30,709) and study whether …
More or less help? A longitudinal investigation of positive and negative consequences of divorce for informal helping
As divorce rates have risen, scholars have expressed concern that a breakdown of traditional family bonds might negatively influence community life. This study examines the impact of divorce on one form of community involvement, namely informal community helping, and whether this impact depends on household income, having adult children and being full-time employed. We hypothesized that informal community helping can both increase and decrease af…
All is nice and well unless she outshines him: Higher social status benefits women's well‐being and relationship quality but not if they surpass their male partner
In two studies, we find that climbing the societal ladder has positive associations with women's well‐being and relationship outcomes but can also have negative consequences when women surpass their male partners in status. In Study 1 (N = 314), we found that women who reported having higher personal status also reported several positive relationship outcomes (e.g., higher relationship quality than women with lower personal status). However, thes…
Why Female Employees Do Not Earn More under a Female Manager: A Mixed-Method Study
Previous studies found contradictory results on whether women benefit in terms of earnings from having a female manager. This mixed-method study draws on survey data from the Netherlands to determine whether female employees have higher wages if they work under a female manager and combines these with data from interviews with Dutch female managers to interpret and contextualize its findings. The survey data show that having a female manager does…
Manager's gender, supervisory style, and employee's perception of the demanding work climate
Prior research on the link between managers' gender and workplace gender equity primarily focuses on career outcomes. The present study explores overly demanding work climates, which we see as a realization of the ideal worker norm, bad for all workers, but a particular barrier to women's careers. We examine whether female managers are 'agents of change' toward better work climates, while also exploring the impact of gendered supervisory styles o…
Leeftijdsdiscriminatie bij sollicitaties: Een vignette-experiment onder managers in negen Europese landen
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Parental involvement in stepfamilies: Biology, relationship type, residence, and gender
Objective This study investigates the determinants of parental involvement in diverse types of stepfamilies. Background Most research has studied parental involvement in married stepfather families with resident children. This study also includes some of the more recent and emerging stepfamily types (e.g., living‐apart‐together [LAT] stepfamilies) allowing for a simultaneous examination of the role of biological relatedness, type of relationship,…
Penalized for Challenging Traditional Gender Roles: Why Heterosexual Relationships in Which Women Wear the Pants May Be More Precarious
There is growing evidence that heterosexual relationships in which traditional gender roles are reversed because women have attained higher societal status than their male partner are more precarious. We argue that this is the case because both partners in role-reversed relationships are evaluated more negatively than partners in more egalitarian or traditional gender role relationships. In two experimental studies conducted in the United States …
Fairness Perceptions of the Division of Household Labor: Housework and Childcare
An unequal division of housework has been found to be often regarded as fair, which may explain why women still do most household labor. This study extends previous research by also investigating childcare-an increasingly important part of household labor, which is likely to have a different meaning than housework. It examines how perceptions of fairness for both housework and childcare are influenced by the division of housework, childcare, and …
Relational Processes as Predictors of Relationship Satisfaction Trajectories Across the Transition to Parenthood
Objective To identify subgroups of parents with distinct patterns of change in relationship satisfaction across the transition to parenthood and predict subgroup membership from prenatal levels of relational processes. Background The average decline in relationship satisfaction that is generally found across the transition to parenthood masks the existence of subgroups of parents who show distinct patterns of change across the transition to paren…
Same-Sex Couples’ Division of Labor from a Cross-National Perspective
This study concerns how male and female same-sex couples across countries organize their paid and household labor. Using unique data compiled from multiple national surveys in 7 western countries (N = 723), we examined same-sex couples’ paid and household task allocation and evaluate descriptively how this is associated with countries’ gender egalitarianism. For paid labor, results indicate that female same-sex couples spend less time in total on…
Parenting in Postdivorce Families: The Influence of Residence, Repartnering, and Gender
Objective This study investigates the role of residence (including shared residence), repartnering (including LAT relationships), and additional children (step‐ and half‐siblings) on parenting in postdivorce families, and whether patterns differ by gender and type of parenting behavior. Background Patterns of parenting are indicative of how parents redefine their roles and responsibilities after divorce and repartnering, but extant research has l…
Flexible Working, Work-Life Balance, and Gender Equality: Introduction
This special brings together innovative and multidisciplinary research (sociology, economics, and social work) using data from across Europe and the US to examine the potential flexible working has on the gender division of labour and workers' work-life balance. Despite numerous studies on the gendered outcomes of flexible working, it is limited in that the majority is based on qualitative studies based in the US. The papers of this special issue…
Comparative Research on Women's Employment
Women's employment has been widely studied in both Western countries and Eastern Europe. In this article, the most frequently used measurements and descriptions of women's paid work are given, namely, participation rate, number of hours worked, gender segregation, and the gender gap in earnings. Next, three approaches used to study women's employment are discussed: 1. the macro-level approach, which gives a thorough understanding of the influence…
Combination Pressure: The Paid Work-Family Balance of Men and Women in European Countries
People today lead busy, hurried lives with competing time claims between the spheres of paid work and the household. The aim of this article is to provide more insight into the way men and women experience the multiple claims on their time and to attempt to understand the differences between European countries in this respect. Are we able to draw a sharp line in the work-family balance experienced in eastern and western Europe? Expectations are f…
Explaining the gender gap in radical right voting: A cross-national investigation in 12 Western European countries
Immigrant Self-Employment: Testing Hypotheses About the Role of Origin- and Host-Country Human Capital and Bonding and Bridging Social Capital
Using large-scale data on immigrants in the Netherlands, the authors tested competing arguments about the role of origin- and host-country human capital and bonding and bridging social capital in immigrants' self-employment. When taking job-skill level into account, immigrants with a higher level of origin- and destination-country education are less likely to be self-employed than salary employed. Likewise, the likelihood of self-employment decre…
Beyond Formal Access: Organizational Context, Working From Home, and Work–Family Conflict of Men and Women in European Workplaces
Working from home has become engraved in modern working life. Although advocated as a solution to combine work with family life, surprisingly little empirical evidence supports that it decreases work–family conflict. In this paper we examine the role of a supportive organizational context in making working from home facilitate the combination of work and family. Specifically, we address to what extent perceptions of managerial support, ideal work…
Attitudes Toward Housework and Child Care and the Gendered Division of Labor
Research on the division of household labor has typically examined the role of time availability, relative resources, and gender ideology. We explore the gendered meaning of domestic work by examining the role of men's and women's attitudes toward household labor. Using data from the Dutch Time Competition Survey (N = 732), we find that women have more favorable attitudes toward cleaning, cooking, and child care than do men: Women enjoy it more, …
The role of social contacts in the employment status of immigrants: A panel study of immigrants in Germany
Several studies in the migration literature have hypothesized that social contacts, in particular contacts with natives, are important for immigrant employment. Empirical work, however, has been inconclusive whether social contacts indeed have a causal effect. This study uses the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984-2004) to estimate the effect of social contacts of male and female immigrants on their employment position. Results show that contacts …
The effects of time-spatial flexibility and new working conditions on employees' work-life balance: The Dutch case
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Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examined the impact of social contacts on immigrant occupational status and income. In addition to general social contacts, we also analyzed the effects of bonding (i.e., co-ethnic) and bridging (i.e., inter-ethnic) ties on economic outcomes. Results show that general social contacts have a positive effect on the occupational status and, in particular, annual income of immigrants. We also find t…
Outsourcing of Domestic Tasks and Time-saving Effects
The increased participation of women in paid labor has changed the organization of domestic work. This article deals with a strategy to cope with remaining domestic duties; to what extent are domestic tasks outsourced, what are the main determinants, and does it indeed save time spent on housework? Five outsourcing options are investigated: domestic help, take-out meals, the microwave, the dishwasher, and the dryer. Hypotheses are formulated with…
Dutch workers and time pressure: Household and Workplace Characteristics
Balancing work with family life has become one of the most important issues for families nowadays. In this article I study the varying degrees of success of governance structures in households and firms in dealing with competing time claims. Using Dutch data from firms, employees and their spouses and performing regression analyses with robust estimation to test the hypotheses, the results show that more modern organizations characterized by heav…
Non-resident Father-Child Contact across Divorce Cohorts: The Role of Father Involvement during Marriage
Using retrospective data from the Divorce in the Netherlands Survey 1998 (SIN98, N = 808), we investigate changes in children’s daytime contact and overnight stays with non-resident fathers across four divorce cohorts from 1949 to 1998. Our findings show that daytime contact and overnight stays increased over time. A modest part of this increase can be explained by a rise in fathers’ child-rearing involvement during marriage. Involved fathers are…
Unemployment and the Division of Housework in Europe
Unemployment, especially in insecure times, has devastating effects on families, but it is not clear what happens to domestic work. On the one hand, unemployment frees up time for more housework by both men and women. On the other hand, once unemployed, women may take on more additional housework than men do, either because they capitalize on their time to act out traditional gender roles or because unemployment compounds women’s general disadvan…
Persistent Inequalities in Time Use between Men and Women: A Detailed Look at the Influence of Economic Circumstances, Policies, and Culture
The aim of this contribution is to refine explanations for inequalities in the amount of time men and women spend in paid work and housework by breaking down institutional conditions into economic circumstances, policy conditions, and cultural influences. We indicate our expectations for these macro indicators as well as for their interaction with micro level indicators. We expect, for example, that the negative effect on paid work for married wo…
Changes in Gender Inequality in Six Eastern European Countries
This article addresses the question whether or not gender inequality on the labour market increased after the collapse of the communist parties in eastern Europe. Are women the losers in the process of transformation? Several researchers claim that women are the victims; they link this claim to the needs of capitalist production, gender ideologies or the lack of social movements to defend women's interests. We argue that a more thorough analysis …
Work Characteristics and Parent-Child Relationship Quality: The Mediating Role of Temporal Involvement
This study investigated whether the amount and nature of parent-child time mediated the association between parental work characteristics and parent-child relationship quality. We based hypotheses on the conflict and enrichment approaches, and we tested a path model using self-collected data on 1,008 Dutch fathers and 929 Dutch mothers with school-aged children. Longer working hours and less work engagement were associated with less parent-child …
Support Between Siblings and Between Friends: Two Worlds Apart
This research examines whether siblings and friends resemble each other in supportive behavior. Using a Dutch national sample of 6,289 individuals containing 12,578 relationships with siblings and friends, we investigated the relative importance of gender composition, geographical proximity, relationship quality, and contact frequency for support exchange with siblings and friends. Results show that, controlling for other influences, siblings exc…
Citizenship Norms in Eastern Europe
Trends in Free Time with a Partner: A Transformation of Intimacy
Similar or Different? The Importance of Similarities and Differences for Support Between Siblings
Using a large-scale Dutch national sample ( N = 7,126), the authors examine the importance of similarities and differences in the sibling dyad for the provision of support. Similarities are assumed to enhance attraction and empathy; differences are assumed to be related to different possibilities for exchange. For helping with housework, helping with odd jobs, giving advice, and showing interest, logistic regression models are estimated and simil…
Trust Problems in Household Outsourcing
This article addresses the issue of domestic outsourcing. We view outsourcing decisions as the result of utility-maximizing behavior on the part of households. Earlier studies have shown that households with more time constraints, the most common reason for outsourcing, do not always outsource more. To account for these unexpected empirical findings, we provide a new explanation for outsourcing decisions that focuses on trust problems associated …
Type of Schooling and Sex Differences in Earnings in the Netherlands
Though men and women now achieve similar level of schooling, the types of fields they study still vary widely. Men are overrepresented in technical and economic fields, whereas women are overrepresented in socio-cultural and service fields. In this paper, we examine to what extent the type of field people study affects their earnings, and we try to determine to what extent prevailing differences in type - as opposed to amount - of schooling contr…
Effects of Job Features on Domestic Outsourcing as a Strategy for Combining Paid and Domestic Work
This article examines the influence of job features on domestic outsourcing. The central hypothesis is that households use outsourcing more often if the partners are less available for domestic chores and caregiving because of job demands. Analyses of data on 795 Dutch couples show that if they work longer hours, there is more of a demand for the outsourcing of female tasks. Flexible availability resulting from autonomy and working at home facili…
A global analysis of the impact of Covid-19 stay-at-home restrictions on crime
The stay-at-home restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19 led to unparalleled sudden change in daily life, but it is unclear how they affected urban crime globally. We collected data on daily counts of crime in 27 cities across 23 countries in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. We conducted interrupted time series analyses to assess the impact of stay-at-home restrictions on different types of crime in each city. Our findings s…
Type of Schooling and Sex Differences in Earnings in the Netherlands
Though men and women now achieve similar level of schooling, the types of fields they study still vary widely. Men are overrepresented in technical and economic fields, whereas women are overrepresented in socio-cultural and service fields. In this paper, we examine to what extent the type of field people study affects their earnings, and we try to determine to what extent prevailing differences in type - as opposed to amount - of schooling contr…
Changes in Gender Inequality in Six Eastern European Countries
This article addresses the question whether or not gender inequality on the labour market increased after the collapse of the communist parties in eastern Europe. Are women the losers in the process of transformation? Several researchers claim that women are the victims; they link this claim to the needs of capitalist production, gender ideologies or the lack of social movements to defend women's interests. We argue that a more thorough analysis …
Do Mothers Matter? A Comparison of Models of the Influence of Mothers' and Fathers' Educational and Occupational Status on Children's Educational Attainment
Comparative Research on Women's Employment
Women's employment has been widely studied in both Western countries and Eastern Europe. In this article, the most frequently used measurements and descriptions of women's paid work are given, namely, participation rate, number of hours worked, gender segregation, and the gender gap in earnings. Next, three approaches used to study women's employment are discussed: 1. the macro-level approach, which gives a thorough understanding of the influence…
Trust Problems in Household Outsourcing
This article addresses the issue of domestic outsourcing. We view outsourcing decisions as the result of utility-maximizing behavior on the part of households. Earlier studies have shown that households with more time constraints, the most common reason for outsourcing, do not always outsource more. To account for these unexpected empirical findings, we provide a new explanation for outsourcing decisions that focuses on trust problems associated …
Gender policies and the position of women in the police force in European countries
There is still a wide gap between the participation of men and women in the police force. In this article, we discuss existing barriers to gender policies aimed at improving the situation of women in the police force in four European countries, namely, Sweden, Spain (more specifically, Catalonia), Austria, and the Netherlands. Interviews as well as an expert meeting have been held to gain insight into the barriers to gender equality. As it turns …
Outsourcing of Domestic Tasks and Time-saving Effects
The increased participation of women in paid labor has changed the organization of domestic work. This article deals with a strategy to cope with remaining domestic duties; to what extent are domestic tasks outsourced, what are the main determinants, and does it indeed save time spent on housework? Five outsourcing options are investigated: domestic help, take-out meals, the microwave, the dishwasher, and the dryer. Hypotheses are formulated with…
Combination Pressure: The Paid Work-Family Balance of Men and Women in European Countries
People today lead busy, hurried lives with competing time claims between the spheres of paid work and the household. The aim of this article is to provide more insight into the way men and women experience the multiple claims on their time and to attempt to understand the differences between European countries in this respect. Are we able to draw a sharp line in the work-family balance experienced in eastern and western Europe? Expectations are f…
Dutch workers and time pressure: Household and Workplace Characteristics
Balancing work with family life has become one of the most important issues for families nowadays. In this article I study the varying degrees of success of governance structures in households and firms in dealing with competing time claims. Using Dutch data from firms, employees and their spouses and performing regression analyses with robust estimation to test the hypotheses, the results show that more modern organizations characterized by heav…
Effects of Job Features on Domestic Outsourcing as a Strategy for Combining Paid and Domestic Work
This article examines the influence of job features on domestic outsourcing. The central hypothesis is that households use outsourcing more often if the partners are less available for domestic chores and caregiving because of job demands. Analyses of data on 795 Dutch couples show that if they work longer hours, there is more of a demand for the outsourcing of female tasks. Flexible availability resulting from autonomy and working at home facili…
Similar or Different? The Importance of Similarities and Differences for Support Between Siblings
Using a large-scale Dutch national sample ( N = 7,126), the authors examine the importance of similarities and differences in the sibling dyad for the provision of support. Similarities are assumed to enhance attraction and empathy; differences are assumed to be related to different possibilities for exchange. For helping with housework, helping with odd jobs, giving advice, and showing interest, logistic regression models are estimated and simil…
Support Between Siblings and Between Friends: Two Worlds Apart
This research examines whether siblings and friends resemble each other in supportive behavior. Using a Dutch national sample of 6,289 individuals containing 12,578 relationships with siblings and friends, we investigated the relative importance of gender composition, geographical proximity, relationship quality, and contact frequency for support exchange with siblings and friends. Results show that, controlling for other influences, siblings exc…
A Family Affair: Explaining Co-Working By Family Members
This study focuses on co-working by intimate partners and other family members in entrepreneurs' businesses. We hypothesize that co-working by family is beneficial because it reduces trust problems associated with employment relations. On the other hand, co-working is risky because co-working family members may lose income from, and their investments in, the business in the case of bankruptcy or, specific to co-working partners, in the case of se…
Full-time Working Couples and their Life Course. An Analysis of Leaving Full-time Employment
I n the initial phase of family formation a majority of all spouses works full-time. As a result most couples start off as full-time working couples. We used complete career reports of 2.014 couples from the Netherlands to answer the question of which life-course events and individual social resources determine a couple’s exit from dual full-time employment. We estimated the probability of leaving full-time work with dynamic competing risk models…
Weekly rhythms in task and time allocation of households
Analysis of household activity scheduling has to date been limited to one-day periods. This paper extends the study of household task allocation to a one-week period. Using a one-week time use survey held under couples in The Netherlands in 2003, the paper proposes indicators for measuring task allocation on a daily and weekly scale and investigates to what extent role expectations, work status and indicators of time pressure influence task alloc…
Citizenship Norms in Eastern Europe
Working status and leisure: An analysis of the trade-off between solitary and social time
Paid labour is often said to come at a price. Using time-budget information on 9063 Dutch respondents and their partners, we investigated whether couples working full time economize on their solitary and social time budget. Results show that individuals who are part of a full-time working couple spend a smaller share of their available time budget on social interaction with relatives and friends than individuals from single-earner families or com…
Immigrant Self-Employment: Testing Hypotheses About the Role of Origin- and Host-Country Human Capital and Bonding and Bridging Social Capital
Using large-scale data on immigrants in the Netherlands, the authors tested competing arguments about the role of origin- and host-country human capital and bonding and bridging social capital in immigrants' self-employment. When taking job-skill level into account, immigrants with a higher level of origin- and destination-country education are less likely to be self-employed than salary employed. Likewise, the likelihood of self-employment decre…
Getting Outside Help: How Trust Problems Explain Household Differences in Domestic Outsourcing in the Netherlands
This article examines the influence of trust problems on the use of domestic outsourcing by couples from a gender perspective. The authors argue that trust problems matter in outsourcing decisions, because an outsider enters the privacy of the household and takes over tasks of special value. Analyses of data from a survey among 740 Dutch couples show that trust problems faced by female partners influence the outsourcing of female tasks, and the s…
Parental Work Demands and the Frequency of Child-Related Routine and Interactive Activities
This study examined whether the frequency of child-related activities was associated with parents' own work demands and those of their partners. In addition to parental paid working hours, we considered the parents' organizational culture and experienced job insecurity. Moreover, we differentiated between child-related routine and interactive activities. Using self-collected data on 639 Dutch couples with children, we found that paid working hour…
Attitudes Toward Housework and Child Care and the Gendered Division of Labor
Research on the division of household labor has typically examined the role of time availability, relative resources, and gender ideology. We explore the gendered meaning of domestic work by examining the role of men's and women's attitudes toward household labor. Using data from the Dutch Time Competition Survey (N = 732), we find that women have more favorable attitudes toward cleaning, cooking, and child care than do men: Women enjoy it more, …
The effects of time-spatial flexibility and new working conditions on employees' work-life balance: The Dutch case
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Trends in Free Time with a Partner: A Transformation of Intimacy
Spending Time Together—Changes Over Four Decades in Leisure Time Spent with a Spouse
Using American time diary data from 1965, 1975 and 2003, this study investigates to what extent couples' joint leisure time has changed in the past four decades and to what extent joint leisure time varies between men and women and between single and dual-earner couples. Results show that partners now spend more time together engaged in various leisure activities than they did in the past, not only in percentages but also in absolute number of mi…
Work Characteristics and Parent-Child Relationship Quality: The Mediating Role of Temporal Involvement
This study investigated whether the amount and nature of parent-child time mediated the association between parental work characteristics and parent-child relationship quality. We based hypotheses on the conflict and enrichment approaches, and we tested a path model using self-collected data on 1,008 Dutch fathers and 929 Dutch mothers with school-aged children. Longer working hours and less work engagement were associated with less parent-child …
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