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From housewives to employees, the mental benefits of employment across women with different gender role attitudes and parenthood status
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Lu, Zhuofei, Yang, Shuo, Jones, Jeff, He, Yucheng and She, Qigen (2023) From housewives to employees, the mental benefits of employment across women with different gender role attitudes and parenthood status. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20 (5). 4364. doi:10.3390/ijerph20054364 ISSN 1660-4601.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054364
Abstract
Previous studies suggest that paid employment can improve workers’ mental health status by offering a series of manifest and latent benefits (i.e., income, self-achievement and social engagement), which motivates policymakers’ ongoing promotion of labour force participation as an approach to protect women’s mental health status. This study extends the literature by investigating the mental health consequences of housewives’ transition into paid employment across different gender role attitude groups. In addition, the study also tests the potential moderating role of the presence of children in relationships. This study yields two major findings by using nationally representative data (N = 1222) from the United Kingdom Longitudinal Household Study (2010–2014) and OLS regressions. First, from the first wave to the next, housewives who transitioned into paid employment reported better mental health status than those who remained housewives. Second, the presence of children can moderate such associations, but only among housewives with more traditional gender role attitudes. Specifically, among the traditional group, the mental benefits of transition into paid employment are more pronounced among those without children. Therefore, policymakers should develop more innovative approaches to promote housewives’ mental health by considering a more gender-role-attitudes-sensitive design of future labour market policies.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Housewives -- Mental health , Women -- Employment, Women employees -- Mental health , Parenthood , Sex role | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | ||||||||
Publisher: | M D P I AG | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1660-4601 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 March 2023 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 20 | ||||||||
Number: | 5 | ||||||||
Article Number: | 4364 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph20054364 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 2 March 2023 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 2 March 2023 | ||||||||
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