Rate My Professor Lyn Craig

Her research specializations encompass the time impacts of children, care, and social reproduction; motherhood, fatherhood, and gender equity; divisions of domestic labour; work-family balance; and comparative family and social policy. Key publications include her book Contemporary Motherhood: The Impact of Children on Adult Time (Routledge, 2016); "Does Father Care Mean Fathers Share? A Comparison of How Mothers and Fathers in Intact Families Spend Time with Children" (Gender & Society, 2006); "How Mothers and Fathers Share Childcare: A Cross-National Time-Use Comparison" (American Sociological Review, 2011); "Dual-Earner Parent Couples’ Work and Care during COVID-19" (Gender, Work & Organization, 2021); and recent works such as "Working and Caring at Home: Gender Differences in the Effects of COVID-19 on Paid and Unpaid Labor in Australia" (Feminist Economics, 2021), "Gender in the Gig Economy: Men and Women Using Digital Platforms to Secure Work in Australia" (Journal of Sociology, 2019), and articles on grandparental childcare and policy implications for employment transitions. Her scholarship, with thousands of citations, has advanced understandings of gendered time use patterns, unpaid care work, and policy interventions for gender equity in labor markets and families across nations.