Although work is increasingly globalized and mediated by technology, little research has accumulated on the role of culture in shaping individuals' preferences regarding the segmentation or integration of their work and family roles. This study examines the relationships between gender egalitarianism (the extent a culture has a fluid understanding of gender roles and promotes gender equality), gender, and boundary management preferences across 27 countries/territories. Based on a sample of 9362 employees, we found that the pattern of the relationship between gender egalitarianism and boundary management depends on the direction of segmentation preferences. Individuals from more gender egalitarian societies reported lower preferences to segment family-from-work (i.e., protect the work role from the family role); however, gender egalitarianism was not directly associated with preferences to segment work-from-family. Moreover, gender was associated with both boundary management directions such that women preferred to segment family-from-work and work-from-family more so than did men. As theorized, we found gender egalitarianism moderated the relationship between gender and segmentation preferences such that women's desire to protect family from work was stronger in lower (vs. higher) gender egalitarianism cultures. Contrary to expectations, women reported a greater preference to protect work from family than men regardless of gender egalitarianism. Implications for boundary management theory and the cross-national work-family literature are discussed.

尽管工作日益全球化并以技术为中介，但关于文化在塑造个人关于工作和家庭角色的分割或整合的偏好方面的作用的研究却很少。本研究探讨了 27 个国家/地区的性别平等主义（一种文化对性别角色的流动理解并促进性别平等的程度）、性别和边界管理偏好之间的关系。基于9362名员工的样本，我们发现性别平等主义与边界管理之间的关系模式取决于细分偏好的方向。来自性别更加平等社会的个人报告称，他们对将家庭与工作分开的偏好较低（即保护工作角色免受家庭角色的影响）；然而，性别平等主义与将工作与家庭分开的偏好没有直接关系。此外，性别与两个边界管理方向相关，因此女性比男性更愿意将家庭与工作和工作与家庭分开。从理论上讲，我们发现性别平等主义调节了性别和细分偏好之间的关系，因此在较低（相对于较高）性别平等主义文化中，女性保护家庭免受工作影响的愿望更强烈。与预期相反，无论性别平等主义如何，女性比男性更倾向于保护工作免受家庭影响。讨论了边界管理理论和跨国工作家庭文献的含义。