Leah Ruppanner, University of Melbourne

I recently asked my University of Melbourne undergraduates to answer the following hypothetical: your child is sick at school.

Earlier this year, Norwegian sociologists Ulla-Britt Lilleaas and Dag Ellingsen released a report on their country’s armed forces entitled The Army: The Vanguard, Rear Guard and Battlefield of Equality.

CHANGING FAMILIES: In this ten-part series, The Conversation examines some major changes in family and relationships, and how that might in turn reshape law, policy and our idea of ourselves.

Workers in countries where shorter working hours are the norm are more likely to complain of poor work-life balance, according to our research recently published in the journal Social Forces.