Mothers in nightshifts: balancing employment and early childcare

Abstract

Industrialized and urban societies today have increasingly drawn women into the labour force as night shift workers The organizations and or companies that engage in vork shifts are law enforcement hospitals emergency services food industry computer industry railroads banks and more Womens entry into the labour force has resulted in changes in childcarc ll1erefore childcare by whom within and outside family members and thus quallty in childcare has become a dominant concern Childcare during the day has been widely researched by several researchers Childcare dU1quoting the night remains an unexplored area of investigation few attempts have been made to understand the role of employers However there is also paucity of data on women balancing employment and domestic roles specifically by working in night hours How do employed mothers meet their childcarc concerns once employed in night hours X hat is the role of employers in helping employcd mothers balancing their work and parent lives