Changing Work–Family Equilibria and Social Inequality
Title
Changing Work–Family Equilibria and Social Inequality
Author
Scherer, Stefani
Research Area
Class, Status and Power
Topic
Gender and Gender Inequality
Abstract
Profound changes in families and in employment patterns challenge the conventional view of work and family as two separate spheres, and finding a balance between them has become vitally important in economic, social, and even demographic terms for today's societies. Current trends also potentially alter families' role in societies' stratification system and overall inequality. Only recently research started to systematically link demographic and employment behavior and the family to the consequences for societies' inequality structure. Often the empirical impact is much less straightforward than parts of the literature suggest, and for a detailed understanding lifetime inequality and stratification rather than distributional inequality will need to gain major attention.