Maternal Employment and Childcare Use from an Intersectional Perspective: Stratification along Class, Contractual and Gender Lines in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the UK
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Published:2023-08-02
Issue:3
Volume:30
Page:871-902
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ISSN:1072-4745
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Container-title:Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society
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language:en
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Author:
Ferragina Emanuele1ORCID,
Magalini Edoardo2
Affiliation:
1. CRIS-LIEPP, Sciences Po , France
2. LIEPP, Sciences Po , France
Abstract
Abstract
Connecting streams of feminist and comparative social policy literature, this article investigates stratification in maternal employment and childcare use along class, contractual, and gender lines across six countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and the United Kingdom) and five family policy models. Detailing the different stratifying factors that intervene in the relation between maternal employment and childcare use offers a concrete analysis of the complex link between social reproduction and work. Employing multivariate regressions and EU-SILC (2007–2018) data, it provides an intersectional perspective to the literature. First, we observe a process of formalization in childcare use with a parallel reduction of nonformal care for couples; this process is slower for single mothers. Second, we document a paradox in relation to the social investment approach: the relation between childcare use and maternal employment is stronger in countries that recently expanded childcare to modify their male-breadwinner orientation, but in these countries childcare use is more stratified along class/contract types, a concern for the outcomes of social investment strategies outside of Scandinavia. Being out of work, being in a lower social class, fulfilling domestic tasks and/or care activities, and having an atypical contract negatively correlates with childcare use in most countries. Third, households where partners have more similar earning levels use childcare to a greater extent. The article also provides models employing different dependent and independent variables, alternative family structures, full and part-time work, formal and nonformal childcare, and rich country details.
Funder
ANR
Investissements d’Avenir
IdEx Universite Paris Cité
Family Policy, Female Participation and Inequalities
Welfare State Change as a Polanyian Double Movement
How Social Policy Change Affects Women across Different Social Classes
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Social Sciences (miscellaneous),Gender Studies
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