The Impact of the Family on Home-Based Work

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Journal of Family and Economic Issues

Volume

13

Issue

3

Publication Date

1992

First Page

279

Last Page

298

Abstract

This article reports on a study of 899 families with at least one member engaged in home-based work. Six work characteristics are examined in relation to family structure and gender of the home-based worker: business ownership, occupation of the home-based work, amount of income generated, location of the work space, number of hours worked, and availability of help with the work. Women in single-parent and full-nest families are found to do the most restructuring of work time and space and women home-based workers generate less income from the work than do men. Male home-based workers experience less conflict between family and work scheduling, are more likely to have an exclusive work space, and tend to have help with the home-based work.

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