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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

Related resources

Policy and issue briefs / February 15, 2023

Policy Brief: Access to Parental Benefits in Canada

A 50-year review of access to parental benefits in Canada

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Articles / January 10, 2017

Circuits of Care: Mobility, Work and Managing Family Relationships

January 10, 2017 Sara Dorow, PhD, and Shingirai Mandizadza, PhDc Fort McMurray and the oil sands industry of northern Alberta have become a quintessential destination for long-distance labour commuters: workers who regularly travel from and to a distant home base on rotational work schedules, usually of a week or more, and who more often than […]

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Infographics and factsheets / May 15, 2023

Employed Caregivers in Canada: Infographic Compilation

RAPP and the Vanier Institute have published a compilation of caregiving infographics.

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