Both research and policy on balancing work and family life have tended to focus on mothers' lives. There has been a general lack of comparative research to the complex intersection between old and new forms of masculinity; and between fatherhood, work-life balance, gender relations and children's well-being. As a result, men's fathering roles and their struggle with work-life balance have often been neglected. These cultural challenges should be better theorized within family and social policy research. This volume examines how fathers fulfill their roles both within the family and at work and what institutional support could be of most benefit to them in combining these roles.
Author(s): Elisabetta Ruspini, Isabella Crespi
Series: Global Masculinities
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: IX, 229
Tags: Social Sciences; Gender Studies; Family; Sociology of Work; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging; Feminism
Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
Editors’ Introduction: Men, Fathers, and Work-Family Balance—An Exploration across Continents (Isabella Crespi, Elisabetta Ruspini)....Pages 1-10
Front Matter ....Pages 11-11
Changing Fatherhood and Fathering across Cultures toward Convergence in Work-Family Balance: Divergent Progress or Stalemate? (Rudy Ray Seward, Michael Rush)....Pages 13-31
“The Choice Was Made for Us”: Stat-at-Home Dads and Relationalities of Work and Care in Canada and the United States (Andrea Doucet)....Pages 33-47
Institutional Context of Childcare and Fathering Practices in Western and Central-Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland and Germany (Piotr Teisseyre)....Pages 49-62
Front Matter ....Pages 63-63
Changing Family Models: Emerging New Opportunities for Fathers in Catalonia (Spain)? (Lluís Flaquer, Almudena Moreno Mínguez, Tomás Cano López)....Pages 65-81
Which Fathers Are Involved in Caring for Preschool-Age Children in the United Kingdom? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Influence of Work Hours in Employement on Shared Childcare Arrangements in Couple Households (Colette Fagan, Helen Norman)....Pages 83-98
Reconciling Work and Family among Japanese Fathers with Preschool-Age Children (Tomoko Matsuda, Saori Kamano, Mieko Takahashi, Setsuko Onode, Kyoko Yoshizumi)....Pages 99-112
Work-Like Balance and Fathers in Austria? Empirical Evidence at the Company Level (Nadja Bergmann, Helene Schiffbänker)....Pages 113-127
Between Change and Continuity: Fathers and Work-Family Balance in Italy (Maria Letizia Bosoni, Isabella Crespi, Elisabetta Ruspini)....Pages 129-145
Front Matter ....Pages 147-147
Involved Fatherhood: Source of New Gender Conflicts? (Diana Lengersdorf, Michael Meuser)....Pages 149-161
From “Absent Father” to “Involved Father”: Changes in the Model of Fatherhood in Poland and Role of Mothers-“Gatekeepers” (Małgorzata Sikorska)....Pages 163-175
What Work-Family Conflicts Do Fathers Experience in Sweden and in the United States? (Anna-Lena Almqvist, Gayle Kaufman)....Pages 177-189
“At the End, the Father Works More and the Mother Stays Home”: Polish and Swedish Fathers and (Un)achieved Work-Life Balance (Katarzyna Suwada)....Pages 191-205
Back Matter ....Pages 207-229
