Institutionalizing Inequality: Gender, Work and Family

描述(由申请人提供)：本研究采用经验数据分析和模拟方法相结合的方法，调查了家庭内部的人口结构变化、妇女参与有偿劳动力的情况以及管理雇佣关系和子女照顾的法律结构和社会机构之间的关系。这个项目有三个目标。首先是了解人口特征、经济结构和公共政策对女性就业、职业性别隔离和收入的影响。第二是了解管理就业的法律结构和管理两性关系和照料儿童的体制安排如何影响妇女的就业和工作与家庭的协调。第三个是考察劳资关系和政策条件的替代配置如何影响生育模式、育儿安排以及家庭和工作场所的性别不平等。这项建议概述了一项计划：1)对影响劳动力市场性别不平等的微观经济和制度因素进行实证研究；2)构建动态模拟模型，以调查将个人家庭内部的决策与由此产生的不平等联系起来的理论机制。这项研究借鉴了经济学、政治学、社会学和法学等多个学科的理论见解，并采用了跨越学科边界的方法论技术。K01的支持将使私人投资者能够进行更多的培训和指导，这将提供广泛的理论基础和增强的方法技能，以有效地开展拟议的性别、工作和家庭研究，并制定一项独立的研究议程，侧重于以跨学科方法解决家庭人口统计学和社会不平等中的重要问题。这项研究对儿童及其家庭的健康和福祉具有重要影响。通过调查家庭如何做出关于工作和家庭的决定，特别关注这些决定是如何受到社会和儿童保育政策支持的影响，以及随之而来的对家庭层面的决定如何影响宏观条件的兴趣，这项研究应该提供理论见解，帮助我们更好地理解替代政策配置与工作-家庭冲突、儿童福祉以及家庭和工作场所性别平等之间的关系。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This research investigates the relationship between demographic changes within the family, women's involvement in the paid labor force, and legal structures and social institutions governing employment relations and the care of children using a combination of empirical data analysis and simulation methods. There are three aims in this project. The first is to understand the effects of demographic characteristics, the structure of the economy, and public policy on women's employment, occupational sex segregation, and earnings. The second is to understand how women's employment and the reconciliation of work and family are influenced by legal structures regulating employment and institutional arrangements governing gender relations and the care of children. The third is to examine how alternative configurations of industrial relations and policy conditions influence fertility patterns, child care arrangements, and gender inequality in the home and workplace. This proposal outlines a program of: 1) empirical research on the microeconomic and institutional factors affecting gender inequality in the labor market; and 2) the construction of dynamic simulation models to investigate theoretical mechanisms linking decision making within individual households with resulting inequalities. This research draws on theoretical insights from several disciplines including economics, political science, sociology, and legal studies, and employs methodological techniques that span disciplinary boundaries. The support of a K01 will enable the P.I. to engage in additional training and mentorship which will provide a broad theoretical foundation and enhanced methodological skills to effectively carry out the proposed research on gender, work, and family, and develop an independent research agenda focused on interdisciplinary approaches to important questions in family demography and social inequality. This research has important implications for the health and well being of children and their families. By investigating how households make decisions regarding work and family with a specific focus on how those decisions are influenced by social and policy supports for child care and an attendant interest in how household-level decisions affect macro-level conditions, this research should provide theoretical insights that will help us better understand the relationship between alternative policy configurations and work-family conflict, the well-being of children, and gender equality in the home and workplace.