Contents: 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Work–Life Balance 1 Sonia Bertolini and Barbara Poggio PART I THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK 2 Work–life balance and beyond: premises and challenges 8 Anna Carreri, Annalisa Dordoni, and Barbara Poggio 3 Doing research on work–life balance 27 Sonia Bertolini and Rosy Musumeci PART II MULTILEVEL PERSPECTIVES ALONG GENDER AND TEMPORAL AXES 4 Research on work–life balance: a gender structure analysis 50 Emily Hallgren and Barbara J. Risman 5 Work–life balance through the life course 72 Jeanne Ganault and Ariane Pailhé 6 Work-(later) life balance: shifting the temporal frame 90 Anne E. Barrett, Rachel Douglas and Jessica Noblitt PART III COMPARATIVE RESEARCH (APPROACHES AND STUDIES) 7 The household division of labour in Europe: a multilevel perspective 102 Dirk Hofäcker and Simone Braun 8 Subjective work–family conflicts: the challenge of studying self-employed workers 118 Rossella Bozzon and Annalisa Murgia PART IV LONGITUDINAL, DISCURSIVE AND NARRATIVE ANALYSIS 9 Qualitative longitudinal research for studying work–family balance (before and after childbirth) 142 Manuela Naldini 10 Fathers in focus: two discursive analyses on addressing men, work and care 160 Suvi Heikkinen, Marjut Jyrkinen and Emilia Kangas 11 Work–life balance for fathers during paternal leave in Norway: a narrative approach 176 Kristine Warhuus Smeby and Ulla Forseth PART V MIXED AND MULTIMETHOD RESEARCH 12 Beyond the lines: gender, work, and care in the new economy – a view from the U.S. 194 Kathleen Gerson and Mauro Migliavacca 13 The effect of childcare facilities on labour market participation among young adults in Estonia: a mixed-methods study 217 Kadri Täht, Marge Unt and Epp Reiska 14 Flexible work arrangements and diversity through a comparative and multilevel lens 237 Eleni Stavrou and Myrto Anastassiadou PART VI DIGITAL AND VISUAL METHODS 15 The gendered labour of work–life balance: using a new method to understand an enduring dilemma 258 Julia Cook and Dan Woodman 16 ‘My work is full of gossipers so I tried to keep my pregnancy secret’: ‘distant’ netnography as a qualitative method for exploring work–life balance among pregnant and breastfeeding employees 274 Caroline Gatrell 17 The performance of oneself through visuals in interviews: queering the work–life binary 293 Marjan De Coster and Patrizia Zanoni Index

‘This wonderful Research Handbook introduces scholarly debates on work-life balance, provides new theoretical approaches and insights, proposes innovative qualitative and quantitative research methods, and uses longitudinal and cross-national research examples in the analysis of how people define and reconcile family and work relationships.’