Constrained Labour: Maternal Employment when Children Have Disabilities

Autor/inn/en	Gordon, Meg; Rosenman, Linda; Cuskelly, Monica
Titel	Constrained Labour: Maternal Employment when Children Have Disabilities
Quelle	In: Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 20 (2007) 3, S.236-246 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1360-2322
DOI	10.1111/j.1468-3148.2006.00325.x
Schlagwörter	Part Time Employment; Mothers; Legislators; Dependents; Disabilities; One Parent Family; Foreign Countries; Surveys; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Part-time employment; Teilzeitbeschäftigung; Mother; Mutter; Familienangehöriger; Handicap; Behinderung; Single parent family; Ein-Eltern-Familie; Ausland; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Australien
Abstract	Background: This study compared the workforce participation levels of mothers with and without dependent children with disabilities to provide recent data that could be considered representative of the range of families with dependent children with disabilities. Method: Secondary cross-sectional data from a representative Australian household survey were used and subject to quantitative analysis. Results: Significantly lower levels of workforce participation were found among mothers of children with disabilities compared with mothers without children with disabilities. There was no evidence of a lesser desire to work. Mother's partnership status and having a child with a severe/profound activity limitation each impacted on the nature of the differences in level of workforce participation. Conclusions: The results raise concerns about the particularly low levels of part-time work among some mothers of children with disabilities, and about the impact of having a child with severe/profound activity limitations. Questions are raised about the impact of sole parent status in combination with having a child with a disability. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10