Institutionalizing Inequality: Gender, Work and Family

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究采用实证数据分析和模拟相结合的方法，调查了家庭内部人口结构变化、妇女参与有偿劳动力以及管理就业关系和儿童照顾的法律结构和社会制度之间的关系。这个项目有三个目的。首先是了解人口特征、经济结构和公共政策对妇女就业、职业性别隔离和收入的影响。第二是了解妇女的就业和工作与家庭的协调如何受到调节就业的法律结构和管理两性关系和照顾儿童的体制安排的影响。第三是研究工业关系和政策条件的不同配置如何影响生育模式、儿童保育安排以及家庭和工作场所的性别不平等。本提案概述了一个项目：1)影响劳动力市场性别不平等的微观经济和制度因素的实证研究；2)构建动态模拟模型，探讨个体家庭内部决策与由此产生的不平等之间的理论机制。这项研究借鉴了包括经济学、政治学、社会学和法律研究在内的几个学科的理论见解，并采用了跨越学科界限的方法技术。K01的支持将使私家侦探能够参与额外的培训和指导，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关于性别、工作和家庭的研究，并制定一个独立的研究议程，重点关注家庭人口和社会不平等等重要问题的跨学科方法。这项研究对儿童及其家庭的健康和福祉具有重要意义。通过调查家庭如何做出关于工作和家庭的决定，特别关注这些决定如何受到儿童保育的社会和政策支持的影响，以及家庭层面的决定如何影响宏观层面的条件，本研究将提供理论见解，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的性别平等。

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.