Couples’ daily childcare schedules

Gendered patterns and variations

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13009673
AutoresUrsula Henz (0000-0002-0096-2002, London School of Economics and Political Science, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen11
Número1
Páginas127-146
Fecha de publicación2020-09-22
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFamilies Relationships and Societies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2046-7435 • E-ISSN: 2046-7443
EditorialPolicy Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/204674320x15979442575464
OpenAlexW3088220126
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas25

Gender inequality of childcare provision is regarded as one of the main barriers to women’s labour-market careers. However, there is a scarcity of quantitative studies that examine fathers’ and mothers’ combined childcare. This research focuses on father’s and mother’s timing and type of childcare for co-resident couples with a young child. Using the two most recent UK Time-Use Surveys, the study derives typologies of couples’ childcare patterns with a particular focus on gender differences. The five patterns on weekdays and three patterns on weekend days highlight gender inequalities not just in the duration of parents’ time with their children but also in its timing. Mothers are more often than fathers involved during standard working hours. The childcare patterns vary only modestly by occupational class. This might be related to the fluidity of couples’ daily childcare patterns, which change with children’s ages and across days of the working week

Child care · Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Duration (music · Economics · Inequality · Labour economics · Paid work · Parental leave · Scarcity · Sociology · Work (physics · Working hours · Demography · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Work-Family Balance Challenges