abstract: 'The entry of large numbers of women with children into the paid labor

  force was a major demographic shift throughout North America and Europe

  during the last half of the 20th century. Mexican women have gone

  through similar changes in employment, though less research has been

  done to document their experiences. As in North America and Europe,

  Mexican women and girls are doing more unpaid caregiving and housework

  than men and boys. The issue of central concern in this article is the

  impact that gender disparities in family carework have on women''s

  educational and work opportunities and experiences in Chiapas, Mexico.

  This article shows that girls'' and women''s unequal share of the unpaid

  childcare and housework has a substantial impact on their school

  performance, job choice, wages, and job retention. In 99 in-depth,

  open-ended interviews with working mothers in Chiapas, Mexico, 18\% said

  that unpaid caregiving in the home affected their own education

  negatively; while 9\% said that unpaid caregiving had a negative impact

  on their daughters'' education. Thirteen percent of women interviewed

  reported job loss due to caregiving, while 43\% reported income loss.

  Altogether, unpaid caregiving negatively impacted the school or work

  lives of 52\% of the working mothers we interviewed. Their experiences

  are detailed in this article and have broad relevance for policy debates

  around the role of social services, educational and work benefits in

  improving the lives of men and women in Mexico and other industrializing

  countries.'
affiliation: 'Heymann, SJ (Corresponding Author), Univ Michigan, Dept Sociol, 1225
  S Univ Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 USA.

  Univ Michigan, Dept Sociol, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 USA.

  Harvard Univ, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Soc Human Dev \& Hlth, Boston, MA 02115 USA.'
author: Bergstrom, CA and Heymann, SJ
author_list:
- family: Bergstrom
  given: CA
- family: Heymann
  given: SJ
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.3138/jcfs.36.2.267
files: []
issn: 0047-2328
journal: JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE FAMILY STUDIES
keywords-plus: 'MATERNAL EMPLOYMENT; HOUSEHOLD LABOR; CHILDREN; MOTHERS; HOUSEWORK;

  PARTICIPATION; CHILDBEARING; DIFFERENCE; DAUGHTERS; EDUCATION'
language: English
month: SPR
number: '2'
number-of-cited-references: '42'
orcid-numbers: Heymann, Jody/0000-0003-0008-4198
pages: 267+
papis_id: ac451996cb8d7078f278830c242626cc
ref: Bergstrom2005impactgender
times-cited: '11'
title: Impact of gender disparities in family carework on women's life chances in
  Chiapas, Mexico
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000227888600006
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '11'
volume: '36'
web-of-science-categories: Family Studies
year: '2005'