The Trap of Flexibility in 'family-friendly' Professions: Assessing Teachers' Quality of Family Time Through Temporal Indicators.
Using time use diary data collected among 2603 teachers from the Flemish community of Belgium, this article investigates the 'family friendliness' of the teaching profession by exploring the family time of teachers in couple households with children. Teachers are an interesting case as the teaching...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 33; no. 9; pp. 2887 - 2900 |
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