Continuity and change in work-life balance choices.
Continuity and change in work-life balance choices.
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工作与生活平衡选择的连续性和变化。
DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-4446.2007.00151.x
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
C. Harris
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作者：
Nickie Charles;C. Harris
本文探讨的方式，在工作与生活的平衡的选择，由异性恋夫妇在不同的世代不同，这样的选择是如何性别化，以及在何种程度上“个性化”提供了一个足够的概念化的社会变革对异性恋夫妇的影响。它认为，需要在不断变化的社会体制的背景下看待个性化进程，正是“家庭”和生活过程的非制度化导致了工作-生活平衡选择的非性别化。该文件借鉴了在同一地理位置进行的家庭和社会变化的重新研究和工作不安全的性别层面的研究的结果。这些研究提供了证据，表明在工作与生活平衡的选择方面发生了代际变化，异性伴侣之间的职业差异越来越大。这导致越来越多的选择模糊了性别界限，而男性养家糊口的家庭的非机构化进程使这种选择成为可能。我们的研究结果支持的论点，个性化的过程中更明显的年轻一代比老一代，由于外部的家庭变化，有更多的谈判和实用主义的年轻一代之间的工作生活的选择。
This paper explores the ways in which the work-life balance choices made by heterosexual couples differ in different generations, how such choices are gendered, and the extent to which 'individualization' provides an adequate conceptualization of the effects of social change on heterosexual couples. It argues that processes of individualization need to be seen in the context of changing social institutions, and that it is the de-institutionalization of 'the family' and the life course that is leading to a de-gendering of work-life balance choices. The paper draws on findings from a restudy of the family and social change and a study of the gender dimensions of job insecurity both of which were carried out in the same geographical location. The studies provide evidence of generational change in work-life balance choices and increasing occupational differentiation between heterosexual partners. This leads to a situation where increasingly choices are made which blur gendered boundaries and which has been made possible by a process of de-institutionalization of the male breadwinner family. Our findings support the contention that processes of individualization are more apparent amongst younger than older generations and that, because of changes external to the family, there is more negotiation and pragmatism amongst younger generations about work-life choices.