One limitation of the work presented here is the lack of distinction between home-workers who have jobs from home and those who work from their home (with no other office or consistent work site). Differences between the two groups of home-workers obscure significant gender influences on either group. First, it is important to ascertain whether gender plays a role in who works at home or from home, and the types of home that people do in either situation. In societies where women are typically confined to domestic roles and "staying at jobs from home," distinct gender expectations would likely be present in employment conducted either at or from home. But even in other societies, gender could be a determining factor in who works at or jobs from home. Second, if there are differences in work at or jobs from home by gender, or in the amount of time spent out of the home when fulfilling jobs from home activities (making service calls, buying supplies, delivering products, and so on), then some research findings attributing differences between jobs from home and work at a more traditional location might be confounding gender with work site. Third, if gender is a determining factor in working at, compared to working from, home, then not considering this might further muddle research findings. Real estate agents or truck drivers who work a great deal of the time away from their home are not likely to be able to take their children along. Likewise, they are not going to be interspersing home chores with paid-work. In these ways, jobs from home might be more like having conventional employment than jobs from home. Without considering in a more systematic fashion the way gender is linked to such decisions, important gender differences in processes and consequences can be overlooked.

A second limitation of the research presented here is the relationship between gender and the length of time employed at home for pay. It seems fundamental to know whether jobs from home is seen as a short-term option that is fulfilling a need for income earning while the children are of a certain age, in contrast to a lifetime career. Do both women and men employed in the home tend to move in and out of the traditional work force? Also, in how many cases does the home precede the need to fulfill household duties? That is, does being a home -worker allow certain decisions to be made about having children or dividing household labor that would perhaps not be made if the person were working at a more traditional work site? Investigating more closely who works at home, why, and how the decision is made can shed more clarity on how jobs from home and gender are linked. Careful studies of the etiology of jobs from home as well as the internal family processes over time can help bring understanding to what being jobs from home means to the women and men involved as well as to their families.