Agency and Capabilities to Achieve a Work-Life Balance: A Comparison of Sweden and Hungary
Agency and Capabilities to Achieve a Work-Life Balance: A Comparison of Sweden and Hungary
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实现工作与生活平衡的能动性和能力：瑞典和匈牙利的比较
DOI：
10.1093/sp/jxr007
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2011
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J. Takács
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作者：
B. Hobson;S. Fahlén;J. Takács
本研究开发了一个概念框架，采用能力和机构方法来分析两个社会（匈牙利和瑞典）的工作与生活平衡（WLB），这两个社会有不同的工作时间制度、不稳定就业水平以及性别平等话语和规范。受阿马蒂亚·森 (Amartya Sen) 的启发，我们提出了一个模型，说明 WLB 的机构自由如何取决于个人、工作组织、机构和规范/社会层面的多种资源。通过在布达佩斯和斯德哥尔摩两个城市进行的独特定性调查，我们分析了母亲和父亲如何主观地体验家庭和工作需求之间的紧张关系，以及他们做出其他选择（代理自由）的可能性。我们发现这些紧张关系存在相似之处，涉及时间压力和时间匮乏，跨越性别和教育。然而，我们的匈牙利父母在 WLB 方面经历了更大的机构不平等，这反映了较弱的机构资源（转换因素）以及文化/社会规范，这些规范限制了工作场所和家庭中的 WLB 索赔。我们的研究表明，瑞典父母，无论男女，都表达了强烈的行使照顾权的权利。
This study develops a conceptual framework with a capabilities and agency approach for analyzing work-life balance (WLB) applied in two societies (Hungary and Sweden), which have different working time regimes, levels of precarious employment, and gender equality discourses and norms. Inspired by Amartya Sen, we present a model illustrating how agency freedom for WLB depends on multiple resources at the individual, work organizational, institutional, and normative/societal levels. Using a unique qualitative survey conducted in two cities, Budapest and Stockholm, we analyze how mothers and fathers subjectively experience the tensions between family and work demands, and their possibilities for alternative choices (agency freedom). We find similarities in these tensions involving time pressure and time poverty, cutting across gender and education. Our Hungarian parents, nevertheless, experience greater agency inequalities for WLB, which reflect weaker institutional resources (conversion factors) as well as cultural/societal norms that act as constraints for WLB claims in the workplace and household. Our study reveals that Swedish parents, both men and women, express a strong sense of entitlement to exercise rights to care.