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785 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 6,006 Work-Family Balance Challenges papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • The study identifies a gap in the literature regarding the predictors of turnover among newly hired blue-collar workers in the automotive supplier industry. The study aims to fill this gap by examining the relationship between work-family balance and work engagement as predictors of turnover.

    Work–family balance and work engagement as predictors of turnover among newly hired blue-collar workers in the automotive supplier industry: a 6-month prospective study · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies the challenge of cultural expectations and gendered roles in shaping women's experiences of work–family entanglement. It highlights the challenge of weak institutional supports, including limited state-supported childcare and organisational cultures shaped by gendered employment relations. The study also identifies the challenge of emotional conflict and internalised pressure faced by women in managing their work and family responsibilities.

    Exploring African women's roles and experiences as co-breadwinners and homemakers: a work–family entanglement perspective · 2026 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in work–family entanglement theory, which has been largely limited to low-income contexts. It highlights the need to extend this theory to middle-class professional women in Africa. The paper also identifies a gap in the availability of strong organisational support systems for women in Africa.

    Exploring African women's roles and experiences as co-breadwinners and homemakers: a work–family entanglement perspective · 2026 · DOI

  • Design principles for academic assessment that better align recognition with performance under care constraints should be developed. Further research on the relationship between parenthood and academic productivity is needed.

    Parenthood and care in academia: Publication counts, self-assessed productivity, and gendered differences · 2026 · DOI

  • The mechanisms linking effort-reward imbalance to health outcomes in emergency nurses are unclear. The role of work-family conflict and intrinsic effort in the relationship between effort-reward imbalance and health outcomes needs to be explored. There is a need for targeted interventions to address effort-reward imbalance and work-family conflict in healthcare settings.

    Effort-reward imbalance and health outcomes in emergency nurses: the mediating role of work–family conflict and intrinsic effort · 2025 · DOI

  • Further research could investigate the impact of inclusive leadership on work-family outcomes in different cultural contexts, - Longitudinal studies could be conducted to examine the causal relationships between inclusive leadership, relational energy, and work-family enrichment

    Inclusive leadership and work-family enrichment: the roles of relational energy and power distance · 2025 · DOI

  • Limited research has specifically investigated the impact of IL on work-family outcomes. The paper aims to fill this gap by integrating IL and WFE literature.

    Inclusive leadership and work-family enrichment: the roles of relational energy and power distance · 2025 · DOI

  • Investigate the effects of gender ratios on absenteeism in other industries, - Examine the impact of gender social status and majority group dynamics on other outcomes

    Too few or too many? Exploring the Link between gender dissimilarity and employee absenteeism · 2024 · DOI

  • Investigate the effects of different supervisor monitoring methods in traditional offline workplaces, - Examine the impact of supervisor monitoring on employee well-being, - Explore the role of technology in facilitating effective supervisor monitoring

    A study on the positive and negative effects of different supervisor monitoring in remote workplaces · 2024 · DOI

  • The current research on supervisor monitoring in remote workplaces is scarce. The current research on the effect of supervisors' monitoring is mainly based on traditional offline workplaces.

    A study on the positive and negative effects of different supervisor monitoring in remote workplaces · 2024 · DOI

  • Future research should investigate other potential mitigating factors. Future research should examine the effects of incivility on WFI in other occupations. Future research should use longitudinal designs to examine the long-term effects of incivility on WFI.

    Explaining the negative effects of workplace incivility on family lives: a moderated mediation model of surface acting and resource-providing variables · 2024 · DOI

  • The relationship between parental and child happiness in Korean families is not well understood. There is a lack of research on the dynamics of childcare sharing between mothers and fathers in South Korea. Traditional gender norms may influence the perception of mothers' and fathers' contributions to childcare.

    Childcare sharing and family happiness: analyzing parental and child well-being in the actor-partner interdependence model · 2024 · DOI

  • Prior research links leader traits and employee health outcomes, but the processes connecting leaders’ other-oriented perfectionism (LOOP) to employee presenteeism – particularly through work-family conflict – are not well understood.

    The perfect storm: how leader perfectionism fuels employee work-family conflict and presenteeism · 2026 · DOI

  • While both trends are reshaping population movements, it remains unclear how they interact.

    Interplay Roles of Telework and Climate Hazard Risks in Recent Migration Trends in the United States · 2026 · DOI

  • While existing research offers mixed evidence on how the COVID‐19 pandemic affected adults' division of housework, adolescents have remained largely overlooked in this regard.

    Equal Time, Unequal Labor Division: Adolescents' Domestic Labor Time During the COVID ‐19 Pandemic · 2026 · DOI

  • This discrepancy is frequently attributed to family migration dynamics, yet the specific effects of distinct couple mobility patterns remain underexplored.

    Couple Mobility and Employment Patterns. A Gender Perspective in Six European Countries · 2026 · DOI

  • Yet little is known about how women interpret this enlarged gender gap in unpaid labor.

    Empowering Discourses, Disempowering Outcomes: How do Women Make Sense of Unequal Divisions of Housework in China? · 2026 · DOI

  • Background: Mothers are more responsive than fathers to institutional constraints on managing demands at home, and evidence is mixed on the extent to which couple dynamics have become more egalitarian over time.

    Partners' Long Work Hours and Changes in New Parents' Employment Over 40 Years · 2026 · DOI

  • Background Although paternity leave has become more common, prior research has reported inconsistent findings regarding its association with maternal well‐being.

    Daddy on Duty: How Paternity Leave and Personality Relate to Fathers' Decisions · 2026 · DOI

  • This underscores that simply offering flexible work policies is insufficient to improve work-life balance without simultaneously addressing underlying gendered discourses.

    When less isn’t more: Swiss managers’ gendered perceptions of part-time work · 2026 · DOI

  • Cross-national differences in individual patterns of paid and unpaid work are well documented, yet how couples jointly allocate time across both remains comparatively understudied.

    Visualizing the Prevalence of Couples’ Work-Family Arrangements across Countries · 2026 · DOI

  • While core self-evaluation is a well-established predictor of work-related well-being, its interpersonal effects on romantic relationships remain underexplored.

    Core self-evaluation, work–family conflict, and relationship satisfaction: evidence from Croatian dual-earner couples · 2026 · DOI

  • Its potential adverse effects on employees' work-family interface remain underexplored.

    The Influence Mechanism of Work Gamification in Internet Enterprises on Employees' Work-Family Conflict · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should explore moderating variables to mitigate this negative impact.

    The Influence Mechanism of Work Gamification in Internet Enterprises on Employees' Work-Family Conflict · 2026 · DOI

  • Increasing emphasis is being placed on work–family balance (WFB) within post-industrial social policy frameworks, yet its practice in newly urbanised contexts, where familialist and managerial–masculine legacies persist, remains understudied.

    Compromised Productivism: Translating Work–Family Balance Policy within Indonesia’s Emerging Welfare State Regime · 2026 · DOI

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