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Britain's slow movement to a Gender Egalitarian Equilibrium: Parents and Employment in the UK 2001 - 2013

Connolly, S; Aldrich, M; O'Brien, M; Speight, S; Poole, E; (2016) Britain's slow movement to a Gender Egalitarian Equilibrium: Parents and Employment in the UK 2001 - 2013. Work, Employment and Society , 30 (5) pp. 838-857. 10.1177/0950017016638009. Green open access

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Abstract

This paper examines the working lives of British couple families across the first decade of the millennium using EU Labour Force Survey data (2001-2013) taking a multiple equilibria approach (Esping-Andersen and Billari, 2015). We identify a growth in dual full-time earners, increased working hours of mothers in part-time employment and a growing proportion of households with ‘non-standard’ working patterns, suggesting both a convergence and greater diversity in economic provisioning within parent couple households. We find that household employment patterns remain strongly associated with maternal education and family size but are becoming less sensitive to the age of youngest child. The dual full-time earner model is growing in significance for British parents of young children but a new gender egalitarian equilibrium has not yet been reached.

Type: Article
Title: Britain's slow movement to a Gender Egalitarian Equilibrium: Parents and Employment in the UK 2001 - 2013
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1177/0950017016638009
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1177/0950017016638009
Language: English
Keywords: Breadwinners, Dual-earners, Education, Employment, Families, Gender
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1488848
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