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‘We both need to work’

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  • Clare Lyonette
  • Gayle Kaufman
  • Rosemary Crompton

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Both Britain and the USA are described as market-oriented or ‘liberal’ welfare regimes. However, there are important variations within these two countries: although both have high rates of maternal employment, part-time work is much more common in the UK than in the USA, where dual-earner (full-time) couples are the norm. Part-time employment can help to ease work-family conflict for women, while simultaneously contributing to the household income. However, part-time work is limited in its economic benefits, is also career limiting, and, in the USA, it generally comes without health insurance. While most of the current research regarding maternal employment decisions focuses on women, this research involves interviews with 83 British and American fathers, to better understand the complexity of such decision-making. Men’s attitudes and experiences are examined in detail, focusing on the need for two incomes, the importance of paid health care and childcare costs and the potential role of part-time work.

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  • Clare Lyonette & Gayle Kaufman & Rosemary Crompton, 2011. "‘We both need to work’," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 25(1), pages 34-50, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:25:y:2011:i:1:p:34-50
    DOI: 10.1177/0950017010389243
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    1. Hadas Mandel, 2007. "Ideology, Family Policy and Gender Economic Inequality: Different Models, Different Tradeoffs," LIS Working papers 465, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
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    1. Hannah Zagel, 2015. "Understanding Differences in Labour Market Attachment of Single Mothers in Great Britain and West Germany," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 773, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
    2. Zagel, Hannah, 2015. "Understanding differences in labour market attachment of single mothers in Great Britain and West Germany," Working papers of the ZeS 03/2015, University of Bremen, Centre for Social Policy Research (ZeS).
    3. Irene B ckmann & Joya Misra & Michelle Budig, 2013. "Mothers' employment in wealthy countries: how do cultural and institutional factors shape the motherhood employment and working hours gap?," LIS Working papers 594, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.

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