Peer Reviewed Papers and Chapters by Noelle Chesley
Historically, breadwinning is linked to cultural ideologies about masculinity and fatherhood, sug... more Historically, breadwinning is linked to cultural ideologies about masculinity and fatherhood, suggesting contemporary breadwinner mothers confront a gendered cultural ideal. I draw on 42 in-depth interviews with mothers and fathers in 21 couples in which women provide 80% to 100% of the family income to better understand mothers' breadwinning. Few mothers self-identify as providers; just 38% of women (and their husbands) reported that wives were the family's primary financial provider. Interviews indicate that while these mothers feel financial pressures similar to those reported by male breadwinners, their experience can also be characterized by the role it plays in undermining husbands' masculinity and in deepening conflicts between employment and mothering. Overall, while adopting gender-atypical roles may promote change in the direction of greater equality, as when mothers get more serious about paid work or feel accomplishment as a breadwinner, this process is constricted by embedded cultural ideals of mothering and masculinity. Providing financially and materially for one's family, or " breadwinning, " is both an economic arrangement supported through government policy and a gendered social arrangement in that breadwinners are—in theory and often in
The authors analyze American Time Use Survey data to examine patterns in domestic work among at-h... more The authors analyze American Time Use Survey data to examine patterns in domestic work among at-home and breadwinner parents to gauge how time availability, relative earnings, and gender shape time use in couples with extreme differences in earnings and work hours. They find that involvement in female-typed housework is an important driver of overall housework time. It is counternormative housework behavior by at-home fathers that shapes conclusions about how time availability, relative resources, and gender influence parents' housework. Although time availability appears to shape child care in comparable ways across parents, mothers are more engaged in child care than similarly situated fathers. Overall, comparisons point to the importance of distinguishing among gender-normative housework tasks and accounting for differences in engagement on work and nonwork days. The results provide a basis for assessing the social significance of growing numbers of parents in work–family roles that are not gender normative.
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E-mail's Use and Perceived Effect on Family Relationship Quality: Variations by Gender and Race/Ethnicity
Sociological Focus, 2012
... Women tend to have more kin in their social networks and to rely on kin more and interact wit... more ... Women tend to have more kin in their social networks and to rely on kin more and interact with them more often than do men (McPherson, Smith-Lovin, and Brashears 200635. McPherson, Miller, Lynn, Smith-Lovin and Matthew, E. Brashears. 2006. ...
Research in the Sociology of Work, 2015
Sociology Compass, 2014
Technological innovation and adoption is, at root, a social process that unfolds over time. In th... more Technological innovation and adoption is, at root, a social process that unfolds over time. In this review, we connect ideas from life course and technology studies to examine social connectedness among youth, working age, and older adults. We argue that a sensitivity to key life course themesespecially timing and transitions, linked lives, and social and historical contextin studies examining the implications of technological innovation and social connectedness will generate deeper understanding of the role that technology use plays in shaping social life.
Technology Use and Employee Assessments of Work Effectiveness, Workload, and Pace of Life
Information, Communication & Society, 2010
... Please follow the link if you wish to visit the database now. Information, Communication &... more ... Please follow the link if you wish to visit the database now. Information, Communication & Society. ... Special Issue: Gauging and Debunking the Effects of ICTs: The third annual special issue of the iCS/communication and information technologies section of the American ...
The Effect of Advance Directives on End-of-Life Cost Experience
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 2012
This study assesses the impact of Advance Directives (ADs) on end-of-life costs, drawing on admin... more This study assesses the impact of Advance Directives (ADs) on end-of-life costs, drawing on administrative data from a single health care organization located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Independent Care Health Plan, or iCare). As part of ongoing Medicaid and Medicare rate reform efforts, greater use of ADs among plans and providers is being considered to better control costs and enhance health outcomes. Drawing on decedent-member descriptive and cost data, OLS regression is used to analyze the relationship between AD use and subsequent costs for a single health care plan. The analysis does not provide evidence of a significant relationship between AD use and end-of-life costs when patient health is controlled for the sample. There was no evidence within the iCare data to support a relationship between the presence of ADs and lower end-of-life costs.
Assisting Parents and In-Laws: Gender, Type of Assistance, and Couples’ Employment
Journal of Marriage and Family, 2009
... Correspondence: Department of Sociology, 752 Bolton Hall, Milwaukee, WI 53201 ([email protected]... more ... Correspondence: Department of Sociology, 752 Bolton Hall, Milwaukee, WI 53201 ([email protected]). ... draw their husbands into providing more help to wives' parents than wives provide to husbands' parents (Gerstel & Gallagher, 2001; Lee et al., 2003; Shuey & Hardy, 2003). ...
American Behavioral Scientist, 2006
This study analyzes longitudinal survey data on dual-earner couples (N = 884) to assess individua... more This study analyzes longitudinal survey data on dual-earner couples (N = 884) to assess individual-and couple-level effects of caregiving on changes in well-being. The authors draw on a life course, role context, and strategic selection theoretical framework to examine positive and negative effects of individuals' own caregiving transitions and their having a spouse engaged in caregiving on well-being. The authors find that (a) caregiving is associated with well-being declines for dual-earner women and well-being increases for dual-earner men; (b) women caregivers with flexible work arrangements report higher levels of well-being than caregivers without such arrangements, although the size of this effect is small; and (c) having a spouse involved in caregiving affects employee well-being, but in different ways for women and men.
Journal of Marriage and Family, 2005
Book Reviews and Chapters by Noelle Chesley
Information and communication technology use and work–life integration
Handbook of Work–Life Integration Among Professionals, 2000
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2007
Toxic Job Ecologies, Time Convoys, and Work-Family Conflict
Handbook of Work-Family Integration, 2008
... Phyllis Moen* and Noelle Chesley * Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota Depart... more ... Phyllis Moen* and Noelle Chesley * Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Paid work is the lynchpin connecting individuals to institutions, families to economies, identities to roles, and gender (as well ...
Both Germany and the United States endorse the culture of the "career mystique," the belief that ... more Both Germany and the United States endorse the culture of the "career mystique," the belief that a lifetime of continuous hard work is the path to occupational and personal success. The career mystique was the mirror image of the feminine mystique in the 1950s, and both cultural templates together reified a gendered work-family divide epitomized in the breadwinner-homemaker family norm in the middle of the 20 th century. Today men and women increasingly see continuous fulltime paid work as "given," with policies in Germany and the US reifying this pattern. However, very few employees -men or women -now have the luxury of a full-time
Blog and Encyclopedia Entries by Noelle Chesley
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Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia, 2013
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Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia, 2013
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