Fathers, Childcare And Work Hardcover

Rosy Musumeci

The work-life balance of fathers has increasingly come under scrutiny in political and academic debates. This collection brings together qualitative and quantitative empirical analyses to explore fathers' approaches to reconciling paid work and care responsibilities. Taking a global perspective, contributors explore how fathers realize and represent their gendered work-care balance and how enterprises and experts, in country specific institutional context, provide formal and informal resources, constrains, expectations and social norms that shape their practices. Chapters explore how fathers from different social and economic backgrounds fulfill their roles both within the family and in the workplace, and what support they rely on in combining these roles. Further, the collection explores an area of research that has been little investigated: the role played by organizational cultures and experts (such as obstetricians, gynaecologists, paediatricians and psychologists) in shaping notions of 'good' fatherhood and fathering, to which individuals are required to confirm, and to which they, variously, comply or resist.

1787430421

9781787430426

English

Emerald Publishing Limited

15-May-18

Rosy Musumeci is Research Fellow in Sociology at University of Turin, Italy, working on the Horizon 2020-funded EXCEPT project on European youth and the labour market. Her main research interests are transitions to parenthood, work-life balance, job insecurity and the social exclusion of youth. She was co-ordinator of the FAMnet Equalsoc network Practices and Policies Around Parenthood: Towards New Models of Fatherhood?, and is a member of the international TransPARENT network. Arianna Santero is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Turin, Italy. Her research expertise focuses on gender relations, migration processes and social inequalities. She is participating in the Eramus+ project JUMP - Juggling Motherhood and Profession, the bEUcitizen project All Rights Reserved? Barriers Towards European Citizenship and InFact Changing Families and Changing Institutions. She was co-ordinator of the FAMnet Equalsoc network Practices and Politics Around Parenthood: Towards New Models of Fatherhood?

Arianna Santero