This article uses diary data from the most recent Australian Bureau of Statistics Time Use
Survey (N> 4,000) to compare by gender total child care time calculated in the …

Parental time has been identified as a key determinant in the healthy development of a child.
The literature on this topic has rapidly increased in recent years and has revealed large …

We argue that previous research on time devoted to child care has paid insufficient attention
to the conceptualization of care time. Three separate problems are evident. First, the …

By situating men within the country and time period in which they live, social scientists are
better able to understand men's housework and child care behaviors. The author proposes …

How should “care” be defined and measured in ways that enhance our understanding of the
impact of economic development on women? This paper addresses this question …

Previous literature suggests a tenuous link between fathers' care of children and maternal
employment and earnings. This study shows that the link is stronger when measures of …

National context may influence sex segregation of household tasks through both pragmatic
decision making and the normative context in which decision making is embedded. This …

Assumptions about the pace of life speeding up abound in contemporary social theory.
While many factors are contributing to this phenomenon, information and communication …

Although intensive mothering ideology underscores the irreplaceable nature of mothers'
time for children's optimal development, empirical testing of this assumption is scant. Using …

Household production constitutes an important aspect of economic activity and ignoring it
may lead to incorrect inferences about levels and changes in well-being. This paper sheds …