Noelle Chesley
Biographic Data
| ID | 78247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noelle Chesley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Chesley |
| SIGNATURE | CHESLEY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7426-3856 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 290 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
What Does It Mean to Be a 'Breadwinner' Mother
Historically, breadwinning is linked to cultural ideologies about masculinity and fatherhood, suggesting contemporary breadwinner mothers confront a gendered cultural ideal. I draw on 42 in-depth interviews with mothers and fathers in 21 couples in which women provide 80% to 100% of the family income to better understand mothers' breadwinning. Few mothers self-identify as providers; just 38% of women (and their husbands) reported that wives were …
Signs of Change? At-Home and Breadwinner Parents' Housework and Child-Care Time
The authors analyze American Time Use Survey data to examine patterns in domestic work among at-home and breadwinner parents to gauge how time availability, relative earnings, and gender shape time use in couples with extreme differences in earnings and work hours. They find that involvement in female-typed housework is an important driver of overall housework time. It is counternormative housework behavior by at-home fathers that shapes conclusi…
Information and Communication Technology Use and Social Connectedness over the Life Course
Technological innovation and adoption is, at root, a social process that unfolds over time. In this review, we connect ideas from life course and technology studies to examine social connectedness among youth, working age, and older adults. We argue that a sensitivity to key life course themes – especially timing and transitions, linked lives, and social and historical context – in studies examining the implications of technological innovation an…
Information and communication technology use, work intensification and employee strain and distress
Recent scholarship on work suggests that information and communication technology (ICT) use may be significantly altering job conditions in ways that are indicative of work intensification, which, in turn, contributes to employee strain and distress. This article uses structural equation modelling and OLS regression techniques to analyse 2002 survey data drawn from a nationally representative sample of US employees in order to assess the pathways…
E-mail's Use and Perceived Effect on Family Relationship Quality: Variations by Gender and Race/Ethnicity
We draw on a social role theoretical perspective that links women and kinkeeping as well as social-structural and cultural accounts of racial/ethnic difference to formulate hypotheses about e-mail use and its influence on family ties. We use nationally representative data to test these hypotheses. We find that: 1) women and whites are more likely to use e-mail to communicate with family and e-mail a greater range of family members than men and ra…
Stay-at-Home Fathers and Breadwinning Mothers: Gender, Couple Dynamics, and Social Change
I examine experiences of married couples to better understand whether economic shifts that push couples into gender-atypical work/family arrangements influence gender inequality. I draw on in-depth interviews conducted in 2008 with stay-at-home husbands and their wives in 21 married-couple families with children (42 individual interviews). I find that the decision to have a father stay home is heavily influenced by economic conditions, suggesting…
Technology Use and Employee Assessments of Work Effectiveness, Workload, and Pace of Life
This study draws on survey data collected in 2001/2002 from two distinct regional samples of employees (N = 1667 and 547) and uses multivariate analytical techniques to assess ICT user versus non-user perceptions about the role technology plays in enhancing work effectiveness, increasing workloads, and accelerating the pace of life. I also investigate whether different devices or applications, used in different contexts (for work, for personal ne…
Assisting Parents and In-Laws: Gender, Type of Assistance, and Couples' Employment
We use 1995 MIDUS data (n = 2,085) to assess whether the gender gap in help persists across different types of help (unpaid task assistance, emotional support, financial assistance) to parents and in-laws. We also examine whether joint employment patterns influence levels of help. Persistent gender differences are identified in levels of emotional support to parents and in-laws: Women spend more time than men giving this help. There are no gender…
From Marriage to the Market: The Transformation of Women's Lives and Work - Edited by Susan Thistle
When Workers Care: Dual-Earner Couples' Caregiving Strategies, Benefit Use, and Psychological Well-Being
This study analyzes longitudinal survey data on dual-earner couples ( N= 884) to assess individual- and couple-level effects of caregiving on changes in well-being. The authors draw on a life course, role context, and strategic selection theoretical framework to examine positive and negative effects of individuals' own caregiving transitions and their having a spouse engaged in caregiving on well-being. The authors find that (a) caregiving is ass…
Families in a High-Tech Age: Technology Usage Patterns, Work and Family Correlates, and Gender
This study analyzes a couple-level ( N = 581), longitudinal data set of employees to provide evidence about technology use over time, the factors that predict use, and the potential for a spouse to influence an individual's use. Although longitudinal usage patterns suggest a trend toward adoption and use of e-mail, the Internet, cell phones, and pagers over time, this trend toward continuing use is stronger for some technologies (e-mail, the Inte…
Special Reviewers
Blurring Boundaries? Linking Technology Use, Spillover, Individual Distress, and Family Satisfaction
Information technology is entrenched in everyday life; yet, scholars have not firmly established whether this use blesses or vexes individuals and their families. This study analyzes longitudinal data (N =1,367) from the Cornell Couples and Careers Study to assess whether increases in spillover explain changes in distress and family satisfaction associated with technology use. Structural equation models indicate that cell phone use over time (but…
Stay-at-Home Fathers and Breadwinning Mothers: Gender, Couple Dynamics, and Social Change
I examine experiences of married couples to better understand whether economic shifts that push couples into gender-atypical work/family arrangements influence gender inequality. I draw on in-depth interviews conducted in 2008 with stay-at-home husbands and their wives in 21 married-couple families with children (42 individual interviews). I find that the decision to have a father stay home is heavily influenced by economic conditions, suggesting…
Blurring Boundaries? Linking Technology Use, Spillover, Individual Distress, and Family Satisfaction
Information technology is entrenched in everyday life; yet, scholars have not firmly established whether this use blesses or vexes individuals and their families. This study analyzes longitudinal data (N =1,367) from the Cornell Couples and Careers Study to assess whether increases in spillover explain changes in distress and family satisfaction associated with technology use. Structural equation models indicate that cell phone use over time (but…
Information and communication technology use, work intensification and employee strain and distress
Recent scholarship on work suggests that information and communication technology (ICT) use may be significantly altering job conditions in ways that are indicative of work intensification, which, in turn, contributes to employee strain and distress. This article uses structural equation modelling and OLS regression techniques to analyse 2002 survey data drawn from a nationally representative sample of US employees in order to assess the pathways…
Signs of Change? At-Home and Breadwinner Parents' Housework and Child-Care Time
The authors analyze American Time Use Survey data to examine patterns in domestic work among at-home and breadwinner parents to gauge how time availability, relative earnings, and gender shape time use in couples with extreme differences in earnings and work hours. They find that involvement in female-typed housework is an important driver of overall housework time. It is counternormative housework behavior by at-home fathers that shapes conclusi…
What Does It Mean to Be a 'Breadwinner' Mother
Historically, breadwinning is linked to cultural ideologies about masculinity and fatherhood, suggesting contemporary breadwinner mothers confront a gendered cultural ideal. I draw on 42 in-depth interviews with mothers and fathers in 21 couples in which women provide 80% to 100% of the family income to better understand mothers' breadwinning. Few mothers self-identify as providers; just 38% of women (and their husbands) reported that wives were …
Assisting Parents and In-Laws: Gender, Type of Assistance, and Couples' Employment
We use 1995 MIDUS data (n = 2,085) to assess whether the gender gap in help persists across different types of help (unpaid task assistance, emotional support, financial assistance) to parents and in-laws. We also examine whether joint employment patterns influence levels of help. Persistent gender differences are identified in levels of emotional support to parents and in-laws: Women spend more time than men giving this help. There are no gender…
When Workers Care: Dual-Earner Couples' Caregiving Strategies, Benefit Use, and Psychological Well-Being
This study analyzes longitudinal survey data on dual-earner couples ( N= 884) to assess individual- and couple-level effects of caregiving on changes in well-being. The authors draw on a life course, role context, and strategic selection theoretical framework to examine positive and negative effects of individuals' own caregiving transitions and their having a spouse engaged in caregiving on well-being. The authors find that (a) caregiving is ass…
Families in a High-Tech Age: Technology Usage Patterns, Work and Family Correlates, and Gender
This study analyzes a couple-level ( N = 581), longitudinal data set of employees to provide evidence about technology use over time, the factors that predict use, and the potential for a spouse to influence an individual's use. Although longitudinal usage patterns suggest a trend toward adoption and use of e-mail, the Internet, cell phones, and pagers over time, this trend toward continuing use is stronger for some technologies (e-mail, the Inte…
Information and Communication Technology Use and Social Connectedness over the Life Course
Technological innovation and adoption is, at root, a social process that unfolds over time. In this review, we connect ideas from life course and technology studies to examine social connectedness among youth, working age, and older adults. We argue that a sensitivity to key life course themes – especially timing and transitions, linked lives, and social and historical context – in studies examining the implications of technological innovation an…
E-mail's Use and Perceived Effect on Family Relationship Quality: Variations by Gender and Race/Ethnicity
We draw on a social role theoretical perspective that links women and kinkeeping as well as social-structural and cultural accounts of racial/ethnic difference to formulate hypotheses about e-mail use and its influence on family ties. We use nationally representative data to test these hypotheses. We find that: 1) women and whites are more likely to use e-mail to communicate with family and e-mail a greater range of family members than men and ra…
Special Reviewers
Blurring Boundaries? Linking Technology Use, Spillover, Individual Distress, and Family Satisfaction
Information technology is entrenched in everyday life; yet, scholars have not firmly established whether this use blesses or vexes individuals and their families. This study analyzes longitudinal data (N =1,367) from the Cornell Couples and Careers Study to assess whether increases in spillover explain changes in distress and family satisfaction associated with technology use. Structural equation models indicate that cell phone use over time (but…
When Workers Care: Dual-Earner Couples' Caregiving Strategies, Benefit Use, and Psychological Well-Being
This study analyzes longitudinal survey data on dual-earner couples ( N= 884) to assess individual- and couple-level effects of caregiving on changes in well-being. The authors draw on a life course, role context, and strategic selection theoretical framework to examine positive and negative effects of individuals' own caregiving transitions and their having a spouse engaged in caregiving on well-being. The authors find that (a) caregiving is ass…
Families in a High-Tech Age: Technology Usage Patterns, Work and Family Correlates, and Gender
This study analyzes a couple-level ( N = 581), longitudinal data set of employees to provide evidence about technology use over time, the factors that predict use, and the potential for a spouse to influence an individual's use. Although longitudinal usage patterns suggest a trend toward adoption and use of e-mail, the Internet, cell phones, and pagers over time, this trend toward continuing use is stronger for some technologies (e-mail, the Inte…
From Marriage to the Market: The Transformation of Women's Lives and Work - Edited by Susan Thistle
Assisting Parents and In-Laws: Gender, Type of Assistance, and Couples' Employment
We use 1995 MIDUS data (n = 2,085) to assess whether the gender gap in help persists across different types of help (unpaid task assistance, emotional support, financial assistance) to parents and in-laws. We also examine whether joint employment patterns influence levels of help. Persistent gender differences are identified in levels of emotional support to parents and in-laws: Women spend more time than men giving this help. There are no gender…
Technology Use and Employee Assessments of Work Effectiveness, Workload, and Pace of Life
This study draws on survey data collected in 2001/2002 from two distinct regional samples of employees (N = 1667 and 547) and uses multivariate analytical techniques to assess ICT user versus non-user perceptions about the role technology plays in enhancing work effectiveness, increasing workloads, and accelerating the pace of life. I also investigate whether different devices or applications, used in different contexts (for work, for personal ne…
Stay-at-Home Fathers and Breadwinning Mothers: Gender, Couple Dynamics, and Social Change
I examine experiences of married couples to better understand whether economic shifts that push couples into gender-atypical work/family arrangements influence gender inequality. I draw on in-depth interviews conducted in 2008 with stay-at-home husbands and their wives in 21 married-couple families with children (42 individual interviews). I find that the decision to have a father stay home is heavily influenced by economic conditions, suggesting…
E-mail's Use and Perceived Effect on Family Relationship Quality: Variations by Gender and Race/Ethnicity
We draw on a social role theoretical perspective that links women and kinkeeping as well as social-structural and cultural accounts of racial/ethnic difference to formulate hypotheses about e-mail use and its influence on family ties. We use nationally representative data to test these hypotheses. We find that: 1) women and whites are more likely to use e-mail to communicate with family and e-mail a greater range of family members than men and ra…
Information and Communication Technology Use and Social Connectedness over the Life Course
Technological innovation and adoption is, at root, a social process that unfolds over time. In this review, we connect ideas from life course and technology studies to examine social connectedness among youth, working age, and older adults. We argue that a sensitivity to key life course themes – especially timing and transitions, linked lives, and social and historical context – in studies examining the implications of technological innovation an…
Information and communication technology use, work intensification and employee strain and distress
Recent scholarship on work suggests that information and communication technology (ICT) use may be significantly altering job conditions in ways that are indicative of work intensification, which, in turn, contributes to employee strain and distress. This article uses structural equation modelling and OLS regression techniques to analyse 2002 survey data drawn from a nationally representative sample of US employees in order to assess the pathways…
What Does It Mean to Be a 'Breadwinner' Mother
Historically, breadwinning is linked to cultural ideologies about masculinity and fatherhood, suggesting contemporary breadwinner mothers confront a gendered cultural ideal. I draw on 42 in-depth interviews with mothers and fathers in 21 couples in which women provide 80% to 100% of the family income to better understand mothers' breadwinning. Few mothers self-identify as providers; just 38% of women (and their husbands) reported that wives were …
Signs of Change? At-Home and Breadwinner Parents' Housework and Child-Care Time
The authors analyze American Time Use Survey data to examine patterns in domestic work among at-home and breadwinner parents to gauge how time availability, relative earnings, and gender shape time use in couples with extreme differences in earnings and work hours. They find that involvement in female-typed housework is an important driver of overall housework time. It is counternormative housework behavior by at-home fathers that shapes conclusi…
Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Medicine (4 works)