어린 자녀를 둔 맞벌이 부모의 퇴근시간과 시간압박감의 관계

Abstract

As demands for work-life balance have steadily increased in South Korea, the time workers leave work on a workday has become a central issue. This study examines whether work finishing time is associated with subjective time pressure among Korean dual-earner parents with young children, focusing on variations according to gender. Using the 2019 Korean Time Use Survey, we selected the weekday workday time diaries of married dual-earner parents under age 60 living with spouses and young children (542 diaries from 363 mothers, 766 diaries from 520 fathers) and conducted ordinal logistic regression models. Our results show that dual-earner parents’ work finishing time is significantly associated with their subjective time pressure. Moreover, there were significant gender differences in the association. For mothers, leaving work earlier (5-6pm) than the standard time (6-7pm) is likely to reduce their time pressure. For fathers, leaving work late (after 7pm) is significantly associated with feeling greater time pressure. We conclude that the implications of dual-earner parents’ work finishing time differ by gender.