Flexible Work, Flexible Penalties: The Effect of Gender, Childcare, and Type of Request on the Flexibility Bias
Flexible Work, Flexible Penalties: The Effect of Gender, Childcare, and Type of Request on the Flexibility Bias
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灵活工作、灵活处罚：性别、儿童保育和请求类型对灵活性偏差的影响
DOI：
10.1093/sf/sov122
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发表时间：
2016
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影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Christin L. Munsch
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作者：
Christin L. Munsch
摘要：尽管弹性工作安排有可能减少性别不平等和工作家庭冲突，但人们对要求弹性工作的影响知之甚少。在本文中，我认为，由于美国的弹性工作制安排是模棱两可和不确定的，人们利用关于性别的文化信仰来定义弹性工作制和评估弹性工作制。我进行了一项受控的在线实验，以检查提出弹性工作请求的后果，并检查这些后果如何因住宿类型、性别和请求者的父母地位而异。参与者对要求弹性工作的员工的评价比不要求弹性工作的员工更负面，对要求远程办公(或“弹性地点”)安排的员工比要求弹性工作安排的员工更负面。与因与育儿无关的原因而要求弹性工作的男女相比，要求弹性工作的男性和女性得到的评价更积极。我还找到了父亲奖金的证据。与出于与育儿无关的原因而提出弹性安置要求的男性相比，提出弹性安置要求照顾孩子的男性具有明显的优势。与提出灵活地点要求照顾孩子的女性相比，她们也处于优势地位。
Abstract:Although flexible work arrangements have the potential to reduce gender inequality and work-family conflict, the implications of requesting flexible work are poorly understood. In this paper, I argue that because flexwork arrangements in the United States are ambiguous and uncertain, people draw on cultural beliefs about gender to define flexwork and evaluate flexworkers. I conducted a controlled online experiment to examine the consequences of making a flexible work request and to examine how these consequences vary by accommodation type and by gender and parental status of the requester. Participants evaluated employees who requested flexible work more negatively than employees who did not request flexible work, and evaluated workers who requested telecommuting (or “flexplace”) arrangements more negatively than workers who requested flextime arrangements. Men and women who requested flexible work for reasons related to childcare were evaluated more positively than those who requested flexible work for reasons unrelated to childcare. I also found evidence of a fatherhood bonus. Men who made flexplace requests to care for a child were significantly advantaged compared to men who made flexplace requests for reasons unrelated to childcare. They were also advantaged compared to women who made flexplace requests to care for a child.