Chung Heejung, van der Lippe Tanja
School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, Faculty of Social Science, University of Kent, Room 106, Cornwallis Northeast, Canterbury, CT2 7NF UK.
Department of Sociology, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University, Sjoerd Groenmangebouw Room C2.09, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Soc Indic Res. 2020;151(2):365-381. doi: 10.1007/s11205-018-2025-x. Epub 2018 Nov 26.
This special brings together innovative and multidisciplinary research (sociology, economics, and social work) using data from across Europe and the US to examine the potential flexible working has on the gender division of labour and workers' work-life balance. Despite numerous studies on the gendered outcomes of flexible working, it is limited in that the majority is based on qualitative studies based in the US. The papers of this special issue overcome some of the limitations by examining the importance of context, namely, family, organisational and country context, examining the intersection between gender and class, and finally examining the outcomes for different types of flexible working arrangements. The introduction to this special issue provides a review of the existing literature on the gendered outcomes of flexible working on work life balance and other work and family outcomes, before presenting the key findings of the articles of this special issue. The results of the studies show that gender matters in understanding the outcomes of flexible working, but also it matters differently in different contexts. The introduction further provides policy implications drawn from the conclusions of the studies and some thoughts for future studies to consider.
本期专题汇集了创新的多学科研究（社会学、经济学和社会工作），利用来自欧洲和美国的数据，探讨弹性工作对劳动力性别分工和员工工作与生活平衡的潜在影响。尽管有大量关于弹性工作的性别化结果的研究，但这些研究存在局限性，因为大多数研究基于美国的定性研究。本期专题的论文通过考察背景的重要性，即家庭、组织和国家背景，考察性别与阶级的交叉点，以及最后考察不同类型弹性工作安排的结果，克服了一些局限性。本期专题的引言在介绍本期专题文章的主要发现之前，对关于弹性工作对工作生活平衡以及其他工作和家庭结果的性别化结果的现有文献进行了综述。研究结果表明，性别在理解弹性工作的结果方面很重要，但在不同背景下其重要性也有所不同。引言还进一步阐述了从研究结论中得出的政策含义以及对未来研究的一些思考。
