Who benefits from work-life programs? Lessons in gender and race from OPM's Federal Work-Life Survey

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Viswanath, Shilpa; Yun, Jung Ah (Claire); Mullins, Lauren Bock
• 署名单位: City University of New York (CUNY) System; Kean University; City University of New York (CUNY) System; College of Staten Island (CUNY); City University of New York (CUNY) System
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.13772
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 1163-1183
• 关键词: family-friendly policies; representative bureaucracy; turnover intention; LINKING WORK; Child-care; balance; CONFLICT; IMPACT; job; satisfaction

摘要

Engaging the US Office of Personnel Management's inaugural Federal Work-life Survey (2017), this study deconstructs the gender and race differences in employee satisfaction with federal work-life programs. We examine whether women of color employees in particular stand to benefit differently from the federal work-life programs in comparison to their male and white colleagues. Notably, this study operationalizes the federal employee's work-life interference and dependent care responsibilities to determine gender and race-related differences in employee satisfaction with federal work-life programs. Study results indicate that federal employees belonging to historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups are satisfied to a lesser extent with partaking in federal work-life programs than their white counterparts.