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Author: | Warren, T. Fox, E. Pascall, G. |
Title: | Innovative social policies: implications for work-life balance among low-waged women in England |
Journal: | Gender, Work and Organization
2009 : JAN, VOL. 16:1, p. 126-150 |
Index terms: | children women work social policy United Kingdom |
Freeterms: | parental leave |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | This article investigates the significance of innovative social policies such as universal systems of childcare, a shorter work week and shared parental leave to the work-life balance of coupled low-waged women in England. The findings of the interview-based study suggest that low-waged women have the experience that current social policies limit their choices of negotiating their work-life balance. The interviewed women found shorter working hours of both parents a positive factor, enabling the fathers to spend more time caring for their children and improving not only the children's but the whole family's quality of life. |
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