Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
A more equal deal? Employer-employee flexibility, gender and parents’ work-family tensions in Sweden
Originally published 2022-11-11 · Work (Reading, Mass.)
SAGE Publications · DOI 10.3233/WOR-210668 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about negotiating flexibility together with realistic workload expectations; the original evidence concerns 2320 Swedish parents surveyed and 40 survey respondents interviewed.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Respect
Flexible for whom: the employer, the employee, or the family?
This reading brings employee-oriented control versus employer-oriented flexibility in Swedish parents' work-family tensions into the respect pathway. The mixed-method parent survey and interview study offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
2320 Swedish parents surveyed and 40 survey respondents interviewed
Age / stage: Working mothers and fathers
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess boundaryless, confined and malleable work arrangements?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about why high schedule control did not automatically mean lower conflict?
- What would need to be checked before adopting negotiating flexibility together with realistic workload expectations?
Keep the limits in view
Observational clusters and interview accounts are context-specific; Swedish employment arrangements do not represent every country or household.
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Anne Grönlund; Ida Öun (2022). A more equal deal? Employer-employee flexibility, gender and parents’ work-family tensions in Sweden Work (Reading, Mass.). https://doi.org/10.3233/WOR-210668
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