The changing conceptions of time in the social scheme of daily life: A work-life balance approach.

Abstract

Analysing widespread feelings of time squeeze in Spanish contemporary society, this article offers an innovative relational approach that considers daily life as the structuring of work, care and personal life on the basis of family life, and framed in asymmetrical gender relations. The authors argue that the phenomena that most affect an individual’s perception of time squeeze are not the stressful changes of paid work, unpaid work or personal life, but their concurrence and impact on work-life balance, and how they are differentially experienced, managed and perceived by men and women in their daily family life.