work

Articles relating to parents’ work by some of the world’s top child and family researchers.

Research is looking at what impact work has on mothering and fathering. What work patterns most help parents to balance their responsibilities? What gendered attitudes to parents have to work and caring roles?

Professor Philip Hwang

Parental leave promotes coparenting, a key to early child development

9th July 2018

Paternity leave is a good start to fatherhood, but well-designed parental leave underpins the sharing of care that boosts early child development.

Professor Lyndall Strazdins

Children object to losing time with fathers to 24/7 economy

July 2017

Parents’ working hours, far more than gender beliefs, influence how parents share care

April 2017

People less happy about work-family balance in countries with shorter working hours

January 2017

Dr Amanda Cooklin

Flexible, secure, autonomous work makes for a better father

January 2017

Gendered patterns of housework persist even when the mother is the breadwinner

January 2017

Children object to losing time with fathers to 24/7 economy

Parents’ working hours, far more than gender beliefs, influence how parents share care

Mothers of sons do more paid work than mothers of daughters

“Home alone” parental leave for dads transforms fatherhood

More trust breeds higher fertility

East and West may be reshaping each other’s parenting

People less happy about work-family balance in countries with shorter working hours

Flexible, secure, autonomous work makes for a better father

Gendered patterns of housework persist even when the mother is the breadwinner

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