Mostly the mother: Concentration of adverse employment effects on mothers of children with autism |
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Authors: | Dana Lee Baker Laurie A DrapelaAuthor Vitae |
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Institution: | Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice, Washington State University, 14204 NE Salmon Creek Avenue, Vancouver, WA 98686, USA |
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Abstract: | Creating comprehensive and effective social welfare and anti-poverty policy is an ever-elusive task. A key component of such policies and their related programs is the encouragement and protection of parents’ employment. However, such efforts become more complicated when families are faced with additional challenges such as difficulties, which may arise when parenting a child with a disability. Although both paid employment and parenting are widely understood as far from gender-neutral activities, how adverse employment effects become concentrated on mothers is less well understood. This article examines circumstances under which negative employment effects become concentrated on mothers of children with autism. The results of the analysis suggest focusing policy on addressing short term threats to the continued success of established careers and on workplace reentry could help counter factors which tend to result in having mothers’ careers disproportionately affected as a result of having a child with a disability. |
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