Journal article
Being a Parent or Having a Parent? The Perceived Employability of Men and Women Who Take Employment Leave
The American behavioral scientist (Beverly Hills), Vol.58(3), pp.453-472
03/01/2014
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/124913
Abstract
We explore one way family caregiving shapes inequality at work by analyzing the evaluations of men and women who took employment leave to care for a newborn or elderly parents or to recover from a personal injury. Roughly 500 undergraduate students evaluated the employability, qualifications, responsibility, and adherence to leave policies of a fictitious applicant for a professional job. Evaluators rated fathers and male elder caregivers as the most employable. This advantage was not explained by evaluators' thinking that fathers and male elder caregivers were qualified, responsible, and policy abiding, suggesting the operation of taste discrimination. Likewise, accounting for these factors widens the gap in perceived employability between male and female noncaregivers. We discuss what these findings reveal about the family-work link as well as their methodological and policy implications.
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- Title
- Being a Parent or Having a Parent? The Perceived Employability of Men and Women Who Take Employment Leave
- Creators
- Julie A Kmec - Washington State UniversityMatt L Huffman - University of California, IrvineAndrew M Penner - University of California, Irvine
- Publication Details
- The American behavioral scientist (Beverly Hills), Vol.58(3), pp.453-472
- Academic Unit
- Sociology, Department of
- Publisher
- SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
- Number of pages
- 20
- Identifiers
- 99900669210601842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article