1. Objectifs

Intentions :
«This article focuses on the quality of employment of female and male workers with or without childcare responsibilities.» (p. 62)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
«This article draws on data from the Labour Force Surveys of Statistics Canada and the Quarterly Labour Force Surveys (QLFS) of the United Kingdom for 1998 and 2008.» (p. 65)

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse statistique

3. Résumé

«The results presented above primarily show that family responsibilities continue to exert a strong influence over gender equality in quality of employment. [T]he quality-of-employment gap between workers with heavy family responsibilities and those without such responsibilities is three times wider in the United Kingdom than in Quebec (with dissimilarity index gaps of 17 points and 5 points, respectively). [T]he British mothers in this category were more commonly employed in bottom-rung jobs, which are low paid and low skilled (group 3), while their counterparts in Quebec were consistently better represented in the three groups classified as high-quality employment. […] In 2008, a very high proportion of British fathers with young children were indeed in jobs requiring over 40 hours of work per week (workaholic and overworked) – at 53 per cent, as compared with only 25 per cent among their counterparts in Quebec. […] These findings thus suggest that family responsibilities translate into more gender inequality in job quality in the United Kingdom than in Quebec.» (p. 74-75)