This review takes a transdisciplinary approach to work–family (WF) research, offering new
perspectives on different family forms in the context of employment. It focuses on lone …

The “motherhood earnings penalty” is a well-established finding in many Western countries.
However, a divide between mothers and nonmothers might oversimplify reality given that the …

This study focuses on flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care (ECEC), an
institutional childcare service for Finnish families where both parents, or a single parent …

This cross-national study examined the connections between parental working time patterns
(ie, regular day work vs. nonstandard working hours) and children's socio-emotional …

Purpose This study intends to identify, prioritize and rank the enablers for organizational
work–family balance (WFB) planning specifically for working sole mothers by employing the …

Objective To compare single and coupled mothers' experiences of time‐based work‐to‐
family conflict (WFC) and work‐to‐family positive affective spillover (PAS) in the context of …

This discussion paper provides an updated analysis of gendered economic inequality in
high-and middle-income countries. A review of the literature demonstrates that such an …

Family dynamics are changing and single-parent families are becoming more common
across countries. In their flagship report “Progress of the World's Women, 2019–2020,” UN …

This article explores accounts given by Finnish educators (n= 31) on the topic of flexibly
scheduled early childhood education and care (ie childcare provided during non-standard …

The authors' purpose of this study is to investigate the antecedents of single mothers'
subjective well-being. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted using a multi-stage …