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Rosy Musumeci, Arianna Santero - Fathers, Childcare and Work, Inbunden

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Fathers, Childcare and Work

Cultures, Practices and Policies

Av Rosy Musumeci, Arianna Santero

Del 12 i serien Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research

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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 fullfil 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.
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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?

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Social scientists from Europe, the US, and Mexico provide 10 chapters examining how fathers achieve and represent their gendered work-care balance and how national policies, enterprises, and experts provide resources, constraints, expectations, and social norms shaping fathers' practices. They consider how fathers fulfill their roles in the family and at the workplace, what kind of support they receive, and the role played by cultures at the company and expert levels in shaping ideas of "good" fatherhood and fathering. They describe men's experiences of fatherhood and reconciliation between paid work and childcare, including the relationship between prenatal anticipation and the development of positive parental involvement in Spain, what happens when partners have different attitudes on gender divisions of paid and unpaid work in Italy, differences in time spent on child raising between rural and urban fathers in Mexico, and the participation of fathers in childcare and the perception of the role of fathers by men and women in the Czech Republic. They then discuss the role of work organizations and infant experts in influencing fathers' experiences of childcare and work-family balance, including how fathers are supported or hindered in attaining work-life balance in Spain, the influence of infancy experts and workplace cultures on work-childcare reconciliation practices among native and immigrant fathers in Italy, paternal leave practices and fathers' family involvement in Austria, and the relationship between fathers' perceptions of the workplace and how they enact fatherhood in the US, ending with examination of policies supporting the involvement of working fathers in childcare in Japan and Nordic countries.

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