TY  - JOUR
A1  - Notten, Natascha
A1  - Grunow, Daniela
A1  - Verbakel, Ellen
T1  - Social policies and families in stress : gender and educational differences in work–family conflict from a European perspective
T2  - Social indicators research
N2  - In modern welfare states, family policies may resolve the tension between employment and care-focused demands. However these policies sometimes have adverse consequences for distinct social groups. This study examined gender and educational differences in working parents’ perceived work–family conflict and used a comparative approach to test whether family policies, in particular support for child care and leave from paid work, are capable of reducing work–family conflict as well as the gender and educational gaps in work–family conflict. We use data from the European Social Survey 2010 for 20 countries and 5296 respondents (parents), extended with information on national policies for maternity and parental leave and child care support from the OECD Family Database. Employing multilevel analysis, we find that mothers and the higher educated report most work–family conflict. Policies supporting child care reduce the level of experienced work–family conflict; family leave policy appears to have no alleviating impact on working parents’ work–family conflict. Our findings indicate that family policies appear to be unable to reduce the gender gap in conflict perception and even widen the educational gap in work–family conflict.
KW  - Work–family conflict
KW  - Gender and educational differences
KW  - Social policy
KW  - Cross-national
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/45723
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-457237
SN  - 1573-0921
SN  - 0303-8300
N1  - © The Author(s) 2016. Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
VL  - 132
IS  - 3
SP  - 1281
EP  - 1305
PB  - Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
CY  - Dordrecht [u. a.]
ER  -