%0 Journal Article
%T Earning and caring: demographic change and policy implications
%A Beaujot
%A Roderic
%J Canadian Studies in Population
%D 2002
%I Canadian Population Society
%X English Seeking to define families as groups of people who share earning and caringactivities, we contrast theoretical orientations that see advantages to a division of labour orcomplementary roles, in comparison to orientations that see less risk and greater companionship in acollaborative model based on sharing paid and unpaid work, or co-providing and co-parenting. It isimportant to look both inside and outside of families, or at the changing gendered links betweenearning and caring, to understand change both in families and in the work world. It is proposed thatequal opportunity by gender has advanced further in the public sphere associated with education andwork, than in the private family sphere associated with everyday life. Time-use data [from Canada]indicate that, on average, men carry their weight in terms of total productive time (paid plus unpaidwork), but that women make much more of the accommodations between family and work. Fertility islikely to be lowest in societies that offer women equal opportunity in the public sphere but wherefamilies remain traditional in terms of the division of work. Policies are discussed that would reducethe dependency between spouses, and encourage a greater common ground between men and women in earningand caring. French En cherchant ¨¤ d¨¦finir la famille comme ¨¦tant un groupe de personnes partageant les activit¨¦s relatives au fait de gagner de l'argent et de prendre soin des autres, nous nous distinguons des th¨¦ories pr¨¦conisant la division du travail ou les r les compl¨¦mentaires comparativement au mod¨¨le collaboratif qui a l'avantage de pr¨¦senter moins de risque et plus de compagnonnage et qui est fond¨¦ sur le partage du travail r¨¦mun¨¦r¨¦ et non r¨¦mun¨¦r¨¦, le travail ¨¤ l'ext¨¦rieur de la maison et le parentage. Il est important de voir ce qui se passe ¨¤ l'int¨¦rieur et ¨¤ l'ext¨¦rieur de la famille ou de consid¨¦rer les liens changeant d'apr¨¨s le sexe entre le r le de pourvoyeur et celui de nourricier pour comprendre le changement qui s'op¨¨re autant au sein de la famille que dans le monde du travail. Les auteurs sugg¨¨rent que l'¨¦galit¨¦ des chances a ¨¦volu¨¦ davantage dans les milieux publics li¨¦s ¨¤ l'¨¦ducation et au travail que les activit¨¦s quotidiennes de la famille. Des donn¨¦es sur l'emploi du temps indiquent qu'en moyenne les hommes ont du poids en ce qui concerne le temps productif total (travail r¨¦mun¨¦r¨¦ et non r¨¦mun¨¦r¨¦), mais que les femmes font davantage de compromis entre la famille et le travail. Le taux de fertilit¨¦ est susceptible d'¨ºtre inf¨¦rieur dans les soci¨¦t¨¦s qui proposent l'¨¦galit¨¦ des chances au
%K working families
%K paid and unpaid work
%K gender
%K family policy
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