Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Incorporating gendered analysis and flexibility in heavy work investment studies: a systematic literature review
Originally published 2024-06-19 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1401201 ↗
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about including gender and flexibility in an overwork assessment; the original evidence concerns 83 selected publications on heavy work investment and gender.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Respect
Whose work-family experience disappears when overwork is treated as gender-neutral?
This reading brings gender and flexibility as lenses for understanding heavy work investment into the respect pathway. The systematic literature review with bibliometric and content analysis offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
83 selected publications on heavy work investment and gender
Age / stage: Adult work literature; not a child study
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess how heavy work investment and gender were defined in the review?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about the review's thematic map and selection boundaries?
- What would need to be checked before adopting including gender and flexibility in an overwork assessment?
Keep the limits in view
Bibliometric prominence is not a quality or causal-effect rating; the selected literature and search strategy constrain the review's coverage.
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Carmen Escudero-Guirado; Lourdes Fernández-Rodríguez; Juan-José Nájera-Sánchez (2024). Incorporating gendered analysis and flexibility in heavy work investment studies: a systematic literature review Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1401201
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