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Dear Colleagues

Apologies for the cross-spamming, but I wanted to share with you the contents of the new special issue I've edited in Social Indicators Research with Tanja van der Lippe from Utrecht University.

It brings together colleagues from across Europe and US and disciplines across sociology, social policy, and economics to examine the gendered outcomes of flexible working, what it means to work life balance and gender equality. Finally it examines what need to happen if flexible working is to help reduce gender gaps rather than further traditionalise gender roles.

See below for the complete list of papers - many are open access!

Flexible working, work life balance, and gender equality: Introduction - by Heejung Chung and Tanja van der Lippe (open access)

Beyond formal access: Organizational context, working from home, and work–family conflict of men and women in European workplaces by Tanja van der Lippe and Zoltan Lippényi (open access)

Gendered Effects of Home-Based Work on Parents' Capability to Balance Work with Non-work: Two Countries with Different Models of Division of Labour by Anna Kurowska (open access)

Flexible working and unpaid overtime in the UK: The role of gender, parental and occupational status by Heejung Chung and Mariska van der Horst (open access)

Workplace flexibility and parent–child interactions among working parents in the US by Jaeseung Kim

Does flexibility help employees switch off from work? Flexible working-time arrangements and cognitive work-to-home spillover for women and men in Germany by Yvonne Lott

Gender, Flexibility Stigma and the Perceived Negative Consequences of Flexible Working in the UK by Heejung Chung (open access) - media coverage/radio

Also, while I have this chance, Merry Christmas/Happy holidays and Happy new year to you all.

Best wishes,

Heejung

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Dr. Heejung Chung

Reader in Sociology and Social Policy

School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research

University of Kent

personal website: http://www.heejungchung.com

Work Autonomy, Flexibility and work life balance project (ESRC funded)

webpage: http://www.wafproject.org // final report // youtube introduction

Recent publications

Flexible working, work life balance and gender equality - Special Issue of Social Indicators Research

Gender, flexibility stigma,and the perceived negative consequences of flexible working in the UK. Social Indicators Research

Flexible Working and Unpaid Overtime in the UK. Social Indicators Research

Women's work penalty in access to flexible working arrangements European Journal of Industrial Relations

Women’s employment patterns after childbirth and the perceived access to and use of flexitime and teleworkin g, Human Relations