Family Diversities and Wellbeing Framework
Family Work
How paid and unpaid work are distributed in families
The Family Work lens focuses on patterns of paid and unpaid work within families.
The division of work among family members shapes their opportunities for workforce participation and access to benefits such as pensions, parental benefits, and caregiver leaves. The ways in which work is distributed within families provides insights into how paid and unpaid work are valued and supported.
This lens motivates us to examine how public and workplace policies hinder, support, or otherwise shape diverse work arrangements and the different impacts these arrangements have on families and family life.
Examples:
• Care work
• Household labour
• High-risk work
• Precarious work
• Work requiring periods of absence
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Family Structure
How people are linked to form families
Family Work
How paid and unpaid work are distributed in families
Family Identity
How family identities are constructed
Family Wellbeing
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