His or her work–life balance? Experiences of self-employed immigrant parents
通过分析挪威自雇移民父母的日常故事，发现工作与生活平衡在个体层面因性别而异，在夫妻层面则呈现二元且可能竞争的关系，揭示了北欧双职工家庭模式中微观层面的性别关系。
The question of how to achieve ‘work–life balance’ has been a central debate for several decades. Hitherto, this subject has primarily been explored in organizational contexts; less is known in the context of self-employment. This article advances our understanding of work–life balance by analysing the everyday stories of self-employed immigrant parents in Norway. In this study, work–life balance is constructed in contrasting ways between mothers and fathers on the individual level and simultaneously in binary and potentially competing ways on the couple level. Hence, through an analysis of the participants’ work and family availabilities, this study sheds light on how gender relations may be shaped at the micro level within the Nordic dual-earner family model.