Reflections After a Time-Use Diary for Full-Time Female Faculty Mothers
摘要
Women faculty are expected to manage both home and work domains, often experiencing expectations of additional emotional labor compared to their male colleagues. With this understanding, the purpose of the study was to determine if a time-use diary would provide insight into the extent of work/life crossover for the participants and help them identify specific areas that could lead to positive changes at home and the workplace. The work-family border theory, which focuses on how often psychological, temporal, or physical borders are crossed in work and family domains, was used as a framework for the study. The method used was a qualitative study of twelve tenured or tenure-track full-time female faculty mothers at community colleges with children 18 years old and under who were asked to complete a two-day time-use diary and follow-up interview. The two research questions focus on the participants' experience using the time-use diary and how the experience of tracking their time helped them examine their crossover between work and home domains. The study found that the time-use diary was a helpful tool for capturing the participants' workload, leading to a higher level of awareness surrounding mental and physical time spent on tasks and the volume of border crossings in the work and home domains. These findings suggest a potential resource for reevaluating future time spent on specific work projects and highlighting the everyday emotional labor of women in community colleges.