Beyond the clock
Rethinking the meaning of unpaid childcare in the U.S
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4779784 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Folbre (0000-0001-6868-9834, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 367-384 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Time & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0961463x221131108 |
| OpenAlex | W4306405753 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 34 |
Can parental childcare be described as productive work? If so, is this work reducible to the specific physical activities designated in most time use surveys, or does it include more diffuse responsibilities for supervision, socialization, and management? These questions invite attention to debates over the meaning of work itself, which have been shaped not only by gender and academic discipline, but also by empirical results of diary-based time use surveys. Recent quantitative research strongly suggests that neither the temporal demands, nor the economic contributions of parental childcare are fully captured by conventional measurement of specific childcare activities. The numbers themselves urge us to look beyond the clock to carefully consider how time use categories are conceptualized
Economics · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Paid work · Positive economics · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Unpaid work · Work (physics · Early Childhood Education and Development · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
Work-life dynamics
Care is not a tally sheet
Being there to care
What Workers Say
Beyond mothers' time in childcare
What and How are we Measuring When we Research Gendered Divisions of Domestic Labor? Remaking the Household Portrait Method into a Care/Work Portrait
More than employment policies? Parental leaves, flexible work and fathers' participation in unpaid care work
Family Time
Happiness at Work
The Gender Wage Gap
If women counted
Time-Use Measurement and Research
If You're Happy and You Know It
The Motherhood Penalty in Cross-National Perspective
The UN, women, and household labour
Trends in the Motherhood Wage Penalty and Fatherhood Wage Premium for Low, Middle, and High Earners
By what measure? family time devoted to children in the united states
Time Spent in Home Production in the Twentieth-Century United States
Woman's Economic Contribution in the Home
Work, and Family Work, Leisure, and Family Roles
Maternal employment and time with children
Beyond mothers' time in childcare
How Parents Fare
Nonmonetary Incentives and the Implications of Work as a Source of Meaning
Is Anyone Doing the Housework? Trends in the Gender Division of Household Labor
The Rush Hour
The Gender Revolution
Measuring the Division of Household Labor
Mothers' Time, the Parenting Package, and Links to Healthy Child Development
Getting a Job
The Unproductive Housewife
When Does Gender Trump Money? Bargaining and Time in Household Work
Money isn't everything
Her money, her time
A New Look at Parents' Time Spent in Child Care
| Citations per year | 2.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |