On January 9, 2013, I gave the keynote talk at the “Meet the Female Faculty” Event at the Ruhr-University of Bochum. The Equal Opportunities Office and the Internal Continuing Education Office at Bochum team up to offer a special program for women scientists to meet each other and talk about their careers. I’ll present the …
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The Time-and-Possessions Equation: or, why hire help?
When we’re not working, are we still working? That is to say, is paid work the only work there is? Of course not. Unpaid work — in the form of caregiving, kinkeeping, and maintaining home, body, and relationships – is essential for life. These tasks tend to be invisible until they come in conflict with …
Job-related spatial mobility and gender relations in Germany and Poland
by Heather Hofmeister, Lena Hünefeld, Celina Proch. We examine the self-reported division of housework and childcare in Germany and Poland considering the job-related spatial mobility within dual-earner couples who are living in a household together with a partner, using 2007 data from the Job Mobility and Family Lives Project. We find that men who are …
Where is Europe headed in terms of spatial mobility, social relations and family life?
urope is likely to see rising, not declining, mobility in the foreseeable future. How Europe chooses to adapt itself, structurally, socially, and ideologically, will have a big impact on whether this mobility is detrimental or helpful to the social and environmental fiber of the continent. There are a number of reasons to believe that mobility …
Dual-earner couples may be less mobile than single-earner couples
Evidence from the USA suggests that an increasing percent of dual-earner couples reduces, rather than increases, relocation mobility (Fischer 2002). Couples who both have paid work are more likely to decide for one place to live and find work in that place. The most probable places for both partners to find paid work opportunities are …
