Europe at a Crossroads: Harmonization, Liberalization, and the Gender of Work Time

Mutari, Ellen; Figart, Deborah M.

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“…The working time regime, in the sense implied by Mutari and Figart (2001), is clearly also an important structural factor in influencing individual behaviour and can undermine social policies which aim to produce a more equitable division of labour between men and women. Hence, in the UK fathers' long working hours coupled with high levels of married women's part-time work (and corresponding lower wage equality) tend to reinforce the gendered division of labour and place constraints on men's greater involvement with their children.…”

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“…Mutari and Figart (2001) provide a useful categorization of working time regimes in the Europe of 15 which highlights these Franco-UK differences. Their classification is based on two main criteria: the degree of work time flexibility and the degree of gender equity.…”

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“…This substantiates their wider contention that men's position needs to be viewed within the two triangles of the state, market and family and the husband, wife and parent/child and that these dimensions can have contradictory elements. In this paper we extend the notion of fatherhood regime used by Hobson and Martin to include reference to national family and employment policies and working time regimes in their widest sense, using the definition of the latter provided by Mutari and Figart (2001).…”

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Fatherhood regimes and father involvement in France and the UK

Gregory

Milner

2008

Community, Work & Family

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Milner

2008

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“…To better understand how different types of work time policies impact on the gendered division of paid and unpaid work, Mutari and Figart (2001) propose the concept of "work time regimes". Work time regimes are defined by the degree of flexibility in work hoursmeasured as de-standardization from the 40-hour working week -and gender equity in work schedules and economic roles.…”

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Fathers' time-bind and the outsourcing of “male” domestic work in Europe: the cases of the United Kingdom and Germany

Kilkey

Palenga-Möllenbeck

2013

J. int. comp. soc. policy

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In this article we examine the processes driving the outsourcing of masculinized forms of domestic work, involving household and garden maintenance and repair, and its displacement to migrant men; a trend which we conceive as part of the broader transnationalization of care that has been highlighted in feminist scholarship. The article draws on two studies conducted in the United Kingdom and Germany, and focuses on the demand on the part of households buying in "male" domestic services. We find that households use handymen in order to alleviate a father time-bind, which is rooted in three processes. Firstly, a "Europeanization" in norms around childhood, parenting and fathering; secondly, a liberalization and flexibilization of working time regimes in both countries; and thirdly, path dependency in welfare regimes based historically on a male breadwinner model. On the basis of our findings in the United Kingdom and Germany, we conclude the paper by reflecting on whether and why we might expect the commoditization of male domestic services to be manifest in other European countries.

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“…Feminist-inspired social policy analyses have refined distinctions within and between clusters of cases (OConnor et al, 1999;Daly and Lewis, 2000;Gottfried and OReilly, 2002;Mutari and Figart, 2001), recasting welfare state typologies in terms of gender-sensitive categories that bring into focus social care, sexuality, reproduction, and the body. Nonfeminist theorists recently have integrated feminist insights into their 'Feminists have established transnational infrastructures for doing research, linking individual efforts, building institutional bridges cross-nationally, and creating virtual research communities.…”

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Gender, Policy, Politics, and Work: Feminist Comparative and Transnational Research

Gottfried¹,

Reese²

2003

Review of Policy Research

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The last two decades of the twentieth century saw the rise of new policies, ranging from equal opportunities and parental and family leave to regulation of working time and sexual relations, that have made the workplace more hospitable to women workers. The collected articles explore the dynamics and determinants, both national and supranational, of such feminist policy formation and its impacts. This symposium contributes to comparative and transnational research on workplace policy, politics, and the state, using feminist perspectives.A relatively new area of comparative policy research centers around regionalization and globalization of policy formation and gender politics. The first group of articles analyzes the policymaking process that has developed through extranational institutions and the emergence of feminist transnational networks. Both the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN) appear as determinants of and arenas for successful feminist coalition building and policy making. Regionalization and globalization can be positive forces to the extent that they present new arenas for feminist actors in governments and society to mobilize around effective women-friendly policies.Most comparative research aimed at developing a gender perspective has focused on welfare and policy-not on work and employment. In this special issue, several articles integrate labor market studies and occupational analyses with social policy. These articles bring together literatures typically separated into distinct subfields to make visible the impact of policies on gendered labor market patterns and work experiences. Tracing policy processes and outcomes both over time in a single country and across countries, the articles explore how policies influence individual work choices and firm-level practices. And, for US audiences in particular, the explicit comparison of policy formation and outcomes presents a

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Europe at a Crossroads: Harmonization, Liberalization, and the Gender of Work Time

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Fatherhood regimes and father involvement in France and the UK

Fatherhood regimes and father involvement in France and the UK

Fathers' time-bind and the outsourcing of “male” domestic work in Europe: the cases of the United Kingdom and Germany

Gender, Policy, Politics, and Work: Feminist Comparative and Transnational Research

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