Enhancing sleep and wellbeing in working families

Restless sleep and emotional wellbeing among European full-time dual-earner couples: gendered impacts of children and workplace demands

Xiao Tan, Leah Ruppanner, Belinda Hewitt, David Maume

2022-02-03

Role strain theory illuminates how work and family impinge on our intimate lives in gendered ways. Drawing upon data from the 2012..

Emotional and financial health during COVID-19: The role of housework, employment and childcare in Australia and the United States

Leah Ruppanner, Xiao Tan, Andrea Carson, Shaun Ratcliff

2021-07-23

During the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world witnessed major economic, school, and daycare closures. We sampled..

Gendered housework under China's privatization: the evolving role of parents

Xiao Tan, Leah Ruppanner, Meijiao Wang

2021-07-12

In China’s multigenerational society, parents fulfill essential family functions including housework–a critical site of gender ine..

Parents' Sleep Across Weekdays and Weekends: The Influence of Work, Housework, and Childcare Time

Leah Ruppanner, Ben Maltby, Belinda Hewitt, David Maume

2021-05-28

Children increase time demands with important consequences for sleep. Here, we test whether parents’ paid and unpaid time demands ..

Occupational characteristics and parents' childcare time

Jennifer L Hook, Leah Ruppanner, Lynne M Casper

2021-05-14

Objective: This study examines how occupational resources and demands are associated with parents' childcare time. Background: Sch..

Do psychosocial job stressors differentially affect the sleep quality of men and women? A study using the HILDA Survey

AJ Scovelle, T King, M Shields, A O'Neil, T Lallukka, B Hewitt, A Milner

2021-05-08

The aim of this study was to investigate whether gender was an effect modifier of the relationship between three psychosocial job ..

Are States Created Equal? Moving to a State With More Expensive Childcare Reduces Mothers' Odds of Employment

Liana Christin Landivar, Leah Ruppanner, William J Scarborough

2021-04-01

Married mothers who relocate are less likely to be employed after an interstate move than married childless women and nonmobile mo..

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

Xiao Tan, Leah Ruppanner, David Maume, Belinda Hewitt

2021-03-17

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

Shifting Inequalities? Parents’ Sleep, Anxiety, and Calm during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia and the United States

Leah Ruppanner, Xiao Tan, William Scarborough, Liana Christin Landivar, Caitlyn Collins

2021-02-02

As a cultural ideal, hegemonic masculinity positions men as breadwinners in the gender order—a position that systematically benefi..

Race to the top: using experiments to understand gender bias towards female politicians

Andrea Carson, Leah Ruppanner, Jenny M Lewis

2019-05-17

Gender balance in political representation is an important goal of governments. In this paper, we ask: Do voters judge female poli..

Harried and Unhealthy? Parenthood, Time Pressure, and Mental Health

Leah Ruppanner, Francisco Perales, Janeen Baxter

2019-04-01

Objective: This study investigates the effects of first and second births on time pressure and mental health and how these vary wi..

Expensive Childcare and Short School Days = Lower Maternal Employment and More Time in Childcare? Evidence from the American Time Use Survey.

Leah Ruppanner, Stephanie Moller, Liana Sayer

2019-01-01

This study investigates the relationship between maternal employment and state-to-state differences in childcare cost and mean sch..

Gender Equality and Restless Sleep Among Partnered Europeans

David J Maume, Belinda Hewitt, Leah Ruppanner

2018-08-01

Sleep is situated in the work–family nexus and can be shaped by national norms promoting gender equality. The authors tested this ..