Gendering Digital Labor: The Effect of Women's Employment on Family's Quality of Life

The gendered division of domestic labor is key topic in gender and family studies. while there has been extensive discussion of time use and the division of physical, emotional, and mental labor in housework and childcare within couples, the division of digital labor in the family has not been systematically examined...women are the ones who most of the time undertake the majority of household work, such as cooking, fetching water and firewood, cleaning and uncompensated by the labour market. combining additional work is quite demanding on Moroccan women's energy, time, health and resources...

Digitalization reshapes the traditional working environment and lifestyle by overcoming conventional barriers imposed by time and place. it empowers women to choose work arrangements that suit them. this work arrangement can enable a women to schedule her work in late hours of the night, during the day or early hours of the day when the day when the environment is convenient for her.

Moreover, the internet and digital technologies have penetrated all domains of people's lives, and family life is no exception...this paper develops a multilevel conceptual framework for understanding the digitalization of family life and illustrates the framework by synthesizing the latest research from multiple disciplines across global contexts...at a micro and miso level.