Employee, Mother, and Partner: An Exploratory Investigation of Working Women With Stay-at-Home Fathers

Dunn, Marianne G.; Rochlen, Aaron B.; O’Brien, Karen M.

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“…Working mothers also discussed their personal experiences of negative social stigmas ( Dunn, Rochlen, & O’Brien, 2011 ). In the study by Dunn et al (2011) , these working mothers shared an experience of receiving negative attention by other mothers, specifically from stay-at-home mothers in their neighborhoods or child’s school. The working mothers reported feeling judged that they were less involved in home care responsibilities, and neglectful of motherly and domestic duties ( Dunn et al, 2011 ).…”

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“…In the study by Dunn et al (2011) , these working mothers shared an experience of receiving negative attention by other mothers, specifically from stay-at-home mothers in their neighborhoods or child’s school. The working mothers reported feeling judged that they were less involved in home care responsibilities, and neglectful of motherly and domestic duties ( Dunn et al, 2011 ). The feelings of being judged or falling short of their role as a mom could affect their parenting decisions.…”

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“…The mothers reflected on both positive and negative social stigmas they received regarding their husband’s role of stay-at-home father. Many working mothers reported experiencing negative reactions, such as accusing the stay-at-home father of being “lazy,” “having it easy,” or “not manly” ( Dunn et al, 2011 , p. 14).…”

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The Mother’s Perspective: Factors Considered When Choosing to Enter a Stay-at-Home Father and Working Mother Relationship

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2017

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A qualitative study was conducted to examine the decision-making factors of entering a stay-at-home father and working mother relationship based on the mother’s perspective. A total of 20 married, heterosexual, working mothers with biological children aged 1 to 4 years were asked questions regarding how they decided to enter a stay-at-home father and working mother relationship as well as contributing factors to this decision. The findings presented in this article were part of a larger study that examined mothers’ overall perspectives of the working mother stay-at-home father dynamics. The themes that emerged regarding how the decision was made to enter this kind of relationship were creating a work–family life balance, utilizing the cost-benefit ratio, and applying personality/trait strengths.

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Section: Impact Of Societal Viewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Impact Of Societal Viewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Impact Of Societal Viewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Impact Of Societal Viewsmentioning

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The Mother’s Perspective: Factors Considered When Choosing to Enter a Stay-at-Home Father and Working Mother Relationship

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2017

Am J Mens Health

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“…These trends prevail despite contradictory evidence demonstrating WMs do not actually spend less time with their children compared to SAHMs (Bianchi & Robinson, 1997), quality of interactions-and not quantity-is responsible for mothers' positive (or negative) effect on children (Kim & Wickrama, 2014), and mothers' employment status bears little influence on parenting practices and effectiveness (Chatterji, Markowitz, & Brooks-Gunn, 2013;Mills & Stevens, 1985). WMs substantiate these negative portrayals by justifying their decision to work (P. Buzzanell et al, 2005) and reporting negative reactions, judgment, and stigma related to their work/family arrangements from family members, friends, other women (including SAHMs), and society as a whole (Dunn, Rochlen, & O'Brien, 2013).…”

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Communicating to Resolve the "Mommy Wars": Testing Communicated Stereotypes and the Common Ingroup Identity Model with Stay-at-Home and Working Mothers

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Toward empirically validating motherhood as an intergroup context and uncovering communicative solutions to resolving the cultural "mommy wars," the goal of this dissertation was to test foundational intergroup communication theories with stay-at-home mothers (SAHMs) and working mothers (WMs) across two independent experiments. In Study One, participant SAHMs and WMs (N = 529) reported on their outgroup attitudes, affective responses (i.e., contempt, admiration, envy, and pity), behavioral responses (i.e., active/passive facilitation, active/passive harm), intergroup anxiety, and willingness to communicate after viewing a description of a target SAHM or WM designed in accordance with the most prevalent stereotypes of SAHMs and WMs established by previous research. The results of Study One revealed the powerful-and primarily negative-effects of stereotypes on mothers' cognitive, affective, and behaviors responses to outgroup mothers. In Study Two, participant SAHMs and WMs (N = 154) reported on their stereotype reliance, outgroup attitudes, perceptions of outgroup typicality, provision of help, and willingness to communicate after viewing an introduction message from a target SAHM or WM designed in accordance with the four representational mediators in the common ingroup identity model (Gaertner, Dovidio, Anastasio, Bachman, & Rust, 1993; Gaertner, Rust, Dovidio, Bachman, & Anastasio, 1994). Given that CIIM tenets were not supported when applied to this novel experimental design, the results of Study Two demonstrate the complexities of communicating social categorization and present opportunities for future investigations of the CIIM. The discussion highlights the implications and contributions of these findings to intergroup communication theory and scholarship, mothers' interpersonal relationships, and women's group vitality. Recommendations for future investigations of mothers' intergroup conflict within media coverage of the cultural "mommy wars," across interactions in more developed mother-mother relationships, and via mothers' interactions in online channels are also discussed. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS

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The Heteronormativity Theory of Low Sexual Desire in Women Partnered with Men

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Low sexual desire in women partnered with men is typically presumed to be a problem—one that exists in women and encourages a research agenda on causation and treatment targeting women. In this paper, we present a distinct way forward for research on low sexual desire in women partnered with men that attends to a more structural explanation: heteronormativity. A heteronormative worldview assumes that relationships and structures are heterosexual, gender (usually conflated with sex) is binary and complementary, and gender roles fit within narrow bounds including nurturant labor for women. We propose the heteronormativity theory of low sexual desire in women partnered with men, arguing that heteronormative gender inequities are contributing factors. We outline four hypotheses and their predictions related to: inequitable divisions of household labor, blurring of partner and mother roles, objectification of women, and gender norms surrounding sexual initiation. We discuss some mechanisms—social, physiological, and otherwise—for the heteronormativity theory, especially related to stress, objectification, and nurturance. We close by noting some limitations of our paper and the ways that the heteronormativity theory of low sexual desire in women partnered with men provides a rigorous, generative, and empirical way forward.

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Employee, Mother, and Partner: An Exploratory Investigation of Working Women With Stay-at-Home Fathers

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The Mother’s Perspective: Factors Considered When Choosing to Enter a Stay-at-Home Father and Working Mother Relationship

The Mother’s Perspective: Factors Considered When Choosing to Enter a Stay-at-Home Father and Working Mother Relationship

Communicating to Resolve the "Mommy Wars": Testing Communicated Stereotypes and the Common Ingroup Identity Model with Stay-at-Home and Working Mothers

The Heteronormativity Theory of Low Sexual Desire in Women Partnered with Men

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