Partners in parenting

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Time Model ◽  
Male Breadwinner ◽  
Shared Parenting ◽  
Female Part ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Negative Feelings

This chapter focuses on the crucial role played by partners and fathers in influencing both the positive and negative feelings mothers have about combining work with motherhood. Almost half of the partnered mothers and daughter mothers had a more or less egalitarian parenting arrangement. These mothers tended to feel more positive about their experiences of managing work and family life. Nevertheless, most of the mothers — including many with egalitarian parenting partnerships — shouldered an unequal amount of domestic responsibility. This has persisted across generations, as exemplified by the fact that over half of the daughters had or were planning to adopt the male breadwinner, female part-time model that they perceived as the ‘best of both worlds’. Motivations and experiences involved in shared parenting tend to be emotionally complex and full of contradictions.

Men Taking Up Career Leave: An Opportunity for a Better Work and Family Life Balance?

2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
JESSIE VANDEWEYER ◽  
IGNACE GLORIEUX
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Career Break ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Female Employees ◽  
Time Basis ◽  
Do So

AbstractIn 2004, 9 per cent of female employees took advantage of the system of ‘career break’ or ‘time credit’ in Flanders, compared to only 3 per cent of male workers. Although the number of men taking a career break is increasing, they remain a small group. In this article the time use of men interrupting their careers full-time or part-time is compared to that of full-time working men, using representative time use data from 2004. Analyses show that a career break does not imply a reduced workload. Half of the men interrupting their career full-time do so to try out another job. Men who take part-time leave are mainly motivated by their desire for a better work and family life balance. About 80 per cent of the time they gain by working on a part-time basis is allocated to household and childcare activities. This suggests that encouraging men to work fewer hours could well be the best policy for achieving gender equality.

Work and Family Life: Contemporary Realities, Current Expectations and Future Prospects

1998 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Hayes ◽  
Helen M.G. Watt
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Early Childhood Program ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Childhood Program ◽  
The Face ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship of work and family life is increasingly complex. Many families are forced to create a complicated patchwork of child care arrangements to accommodate the demands of their work. The average hours worked per week are increasing and part-time and casual work are becoming the norm for many workers, particularly women. Recently, there has been a nostalgic appeal by some politicians and their constituents for a return to a simpler world where work and family life were less intricately interwoven. While appealing to its adherents, the call for a return to the comfortable nuclear family flies in the face of some fundamental contemporary demographic realities. This paper reports the results of a survey of the attitudes to caregiving and career of women enrolled in a university-based early childhood program. The paper is in two parts. The first sets the context for the survey, by exploring the origins of the contemporary patterns of relationship between work and family life. The second describes the survey and its results. The results indicate that attitudes to maternal care and career roles are more traditional among younger, less experienced students than among their older peers with greater experience of parenting and employment. The implications of the results and future trends in the relationship of work and family life are discussed, in the light of contemporary features of families and demographic trends.

scholarly journals Dostosowanie sposobu organizacji czasu pracy do obowiązków rodzinnych w Polsce

2013 ◽  
pp. 59-79
Author(s):  
Anna Baranowska-Rataj ◽  
Maja Rynko
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Distance Work ◽  
Part Time Work

This paper presents a diagnosis of reconciliation of work and parenthood in Poland based on the data from the European Labour Force Survey ad hoc module “Reconciliation between work and family life” carried out in 2010. These data provide information on the following options of combining work with parenthood duties: (1) part-time work (2) flexible arrangements of working time (3) distance work. We compare the conditions for combining work with parenthood duties in Poland with opportunities observed in other European countries. We also show to what extent the conditions for reconciliation of work and parenthood in Poland have improved in time. We make an overview of legal regulations related to combining work with childcare duties and indicate the opportunities for improvement of these policies.

scholarly journals Gender and Generational Continuity: Breadwinners, Caregivers and Pension Provision in the UK

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debora Price
Keyword(s):  
Paid Work ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
Male Breadwinner ◽  
Female Part ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Societal Expectations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Generational Continuity

The UK is considered a ’male breadwinner/female part-time carer’ state due to men and women conforming to stereotypical gender roles within partnerships, and welfare policies reflecting and reinforcing this gender division. Using data from the General Household Surveys 2001 and 2002, this article shows that mothers continue to be markedly disadvantaged in participating in the accumulation of pensions compared to women who have never had children. This is mostly because they take on caring roles at the expense of paid work, but also because where women earn much less than their partners, they are more likely to depend on them for pension provision. Female breadwinners are likely to be low earners, and so, in contrast with men, their status as “breadwinner” does not usually imply pension accumulation. Consideration of the impact of the institutional framework of pension provision requires an understanding of inequalities within couples and societal expectations of mothers’ caring responsibilities.

Review of Work and Family Life.

1988 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-271
Author(s):  
Kelly Piner
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Work And Family

Integrating Work and Family Life: “Should I Call You Dr. Mommy?”

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadine J. Kaslow ◽  
Melanie J. Bliss
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Work And Family

A Study on the Impact of Family-friendly Certification on Financial Performance of SMEs: Focusing on the Manufacturing Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
Ok-Hee Park ◽  
Kwan-sik Na ◽  
Seok-Kee Lee
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact

Background/Objectives: The purpose of the paper is to examine how family-friendly certificates introduced to pursue the compatibility of work and family life affect the financial performance of small and medium-sized manufacturers, and to provide useful information to companies considering the introduction of this system in the future.

Balancing the Spheres of Life During Professional Economic Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 886-900
Author(s):  
O. A. Zolotina ◽  
M. A. Serpukhova
Keyword(s):  
Professional Education ◽  
Master's Degree ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Economic Education ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
State University ◽  
Family Balance ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Master’S Degree ◽  
Work Family

Aim. The presented study aims to determine the key employment parameters that allow bachelor’s and master’s degree students to combine work with professional education in the optimal way and help people enrolled on further professional education to maintain a balance between work and family functions.Tasks. The authors analyze surveys of bachelor’s and master’s degree undergraduates and graduates of continuing professional education (CPE) programs of the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU).Methods. This study uses general logical methods: dialectical, logical, comparative, and systems analysis; methods of sociological research, including public surveys.Results. The authors identify major employment characteristics that help working students maintain high academic performance and positively affect the work-family balance of older people receiving further professional education.Conclusions. Increased flexibility of the labor market in the form of more part-time job offers could make a significant contribution to maintaining and improving the quality of training of students who combine work and studies, which is especially relevant for bachelor’s degree students. Diversifying the available forms of employment can positively affect the decision to gain intitial professional experience while studying at the university. Due to the development of remote employment, the forms of occupation available to students need to be further studied in detail.

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