Maternal Employment and Family Caregiving: Rethinking Time with Children in the ATUS

Abstract

In this paper, we employ the ATUS and the historical time diary studies in the U.S. to extend the picture we have of maternal employment and its relationship to other facets of family life. First, we document trends in parents’ time spent in paid work, housework and childcare over the period of rising maternal employment. Second, we focus on differences in selected time use activities of mothers by employment status. Third, we examine the new measure of “secondary” childcare offered in the 2003 ATUS, compare it with past measurement, and explore how new ATUS estimates add to our conceptualization of childcare time.

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