Fathers, Childcare and Work

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. -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *