Belinda Hewitt

Do managers sleep well? The role of gender, gender empowerment and economic development

Xiao Tan, Leah Ruppanner, David Maume, Belinda Hewitt

Journal article  |  2021  |  PLoS One

Work demands often disrupt sleep. The stress of higher status theory posits that workers with greater resources often experience g..

The consequences of household composition and household change for Indigenous health: evidence from eight waves of the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC)

Belinda Hewitt, Maggie Walter

Journal article  |  2021  |  Health Sociology Review

Households are important health contexts, providing social, emotional, financial and material support, but little is known about t..

Shifts in gender equality and suicide: A panel study of changes over time in 87 countries.

Allison Milner, Anna J Scovelle, Belinda Hewitt, Humaira Maheen, Leah Ruppanner, Tania L King

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Affective Disorders

BACKGROUND: Increasing gender equality remains an imperative for countries and organisations worldwide, and is associated with the..

Convergence and difference: Marriage and family life from a cross-cultural perspective

Belinda Hewitt, Brendan Churchill

Book Chapter  |  2020

Examining topics such as family migration, acculturation and implications for clinical intervention, the book starts by providing ..

Reordering gender systems: can COVID-19 lead to improved gender equality and health?

Tania King, Belinda Hewitt, Bradley Crammond, Georgina Sutherland, Humaira Maheen, Anne Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Lancet

COVID-19 has delivered a shock to existing gender systems that could recalibrate gender roles, with beneficial effects on populati..

Life transitions and women's desired number of children: the impact of motherhood, relationships and employment

Melissa Johnstone, J Lucke, B Hewitt

Journal article  |  2020  |  Community, Work and Family

To better understand the gap between women’s childbearing aspirations and actual levels of childbearing, this paper investigates t..

Indigenous family life in Australia: A history of difference and deficit

Laura Dunstan, Belinda Hewitt, Sana Nakata

Journal article  |  2020  |  Australian Journal of Social Issues

Indigenous family life has been a key target of family and child policies in Australia since colonisation. In this paper, we ident..

Becoming a Female-Breadwinner Household in Australia: Changes in Relationship Satisfaction

Niels Blom, Belinda Hewitt

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Marriage and Family

Part-time strategies of women and men of childbearing age in the Netherlands and Australia

Mara Yerkes, Belinda Hewitt

Book Chapter  |  2019

This book brings together leading international authors from a number of fields to provide an up to date understanding of part-tim..

Does part-time employment status really reduce time pressure?

Judy Rose, Belinda Hewitt

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Sociology

Part-time employment rates are increasing in Australia, for both women and men. However, gendered patterns in part-time employment..