Not everyone has ‘maids’: class differentials in the elusive quest for work-life balance

• Main Author: Teo, Youyenn
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: class; gender; domestic labor; work-care regimes; feminism; Singapore
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79725; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40396
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Work–life balance has come to the fore in Singapore as in other countries. Debates have focused on uneven gendered burdens. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which class matters in shaping outcomes for women. In this article, I argue that the work-care regime in Singapore is one that gener...