Prioritizing Work or Family? Investigating Women's and Men's Work-Family Decisions.

Lianne Aarntzen, Loes Meeussen, Thekla Morgenroth, Michelle K Ryan

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Article in Sex roles, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Lianne Aarntzen *Social, Health and Organizational Psychology, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 1, Utrecht, 3584 CS The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-3835-8123

Loes Meeussen *Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-4340-4788

Thekla MorgenrothDepartment of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9876-5017

Michelle K RyanGlobal Institute for Women's Leadership, The Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Canberra, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-1091-9275

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Abstract

Despite societal change, women and men still differ in the extent to which they prioritize work and family. Women more often reduce work hours or adjust careers to prioritize family needs, whereas men more often work overtime or decline family responsibilities to advance their careers. This study tested two possible explanations, that women and men differ in (1) how they Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11199-026-01663-0.

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Career-family trade-offsCost-benefit analysisDecision-making processesGender differencesWork-family priorities

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PMID42428471

DOI10.1007/s11199-026-01663-0

PMCPMC13346125

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