Gender and Work-Family Conflict: A Secondary Analysis of Timescapes Data

Irwin, Sarah; Winterton, Mandy

doi:10.1057/9781137285089_8

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“…In a number of cases, mothers were continuing to take on a good deal of the responsibility for the coordination of parenting. The location of organisational responsibility with working mothers is a consistent feature of existing literature on care (Christopher, 2012;Irwin and Winterton, 2014;Miller, 2017;Parke, 2013) and our findings suggest this may sometimes endure even when, in other respects, parental roles are interchangeable. Pleck and Steuve (2001) have usefully distinguished between 'infrastructural' aspects of maternal coordination, concerning management of everyday activities and people in children's lives, and 'executive' components that relate to overall direction.…”

Section: Mother As Care Coordinatorsupporting

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Interchangeable parents? The roles and identities of primary and equal carer fathers of young children

Hodkinson

Brooks

2018

Current Sociology

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Against the context of enduring gender inequalities in early years' parental care, this paper examines the experiences of UK fathers who had taken on primary or equal care responsibility for children aged three or under. Informed by qualitative interviews with 24 such fathers, the paper explores a discourse of parental interchangeability that pervaded their accounts before outlining the ways that, in practice, most caregiving tasks did tend to be allocated to them or their partners primarily on the basis of factors other than gender. The men's comfort in presenting themselves and their partners as interchangeable equivalents, along with the range of caregiving approaches they were taking on suggest, we argue, that they had begun to move beyond clearly differentiated motherly or fatherly roles. We go on, however, to show that certain emotional, organisational and social aspects of parenting sometimes continued to be centred on mothers. In explaining the endurance of these areas of maternal responsibility within otherwise interchangeable partnerships, we outline mutually reinforcing sets of maternal pressures and paternal barriers.

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Section: Mother As Care Coordinatorsupporting

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Interchangeable parents? The roles and identities of primary and equal carer fathers of young children

Hodkinson

Brooks

2018

Current Sociology

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“…Time and resources were invested in creating the Timescapes Qualitative Longitudinal Data Archive (Timescapes archive, hereafter; https://timescapes-archive.leeds.ac.uk/timescapes/); discussing the practicalities of preparing qualitative data for deposit; and shaping procedures sensitive to qualitative research. Not only did the initiative support the ethos of qualitative data archiving but it also brought attention to the possibilities and value of reusing data and the ability to work across or bring datasets into conversation (Edwards & Irwin, 2010; Irwin & Winterton, 2014; Irwin et al, 2012).…”

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Fostering habits of care: Reframing qualitative data sharing policies and practices

Weller

2022

Qualitative Research

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This article argues that navigating the formalized, regulated and institutionalized data sharing landscape is challenging for researchers tasked with making qualitative data available for re-use. Archiving empirical material has progressively become a requirement enshrined in the policies of UK research institutions. Yet, how qualitative researchers feature – as data (co)creators and curators – within a process governed largely by quantitative data management strategies remains undocumented. Using examples from the ESRC Timescapes initiative, this article argues that to advance ethical practice in qualitative secondary analysis (QSA), data sharing policies and practices need to be re-framed to respect, value and care for the particularities of qualitative data and the emotional, intellectual and temporal investments made by qualitative researchers working in an increasingly pressurized Higher Education (HE) environment. Accordingly, ideas from the ethics of care literature are employed to propose areas where ‘habits of care’, attuned to the needs of qualitative researchers and data, can be fostered.

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“…For instance, researchers can bring together several in-depth, small-scale studies to increase the generalisability and the cross-context reliability of the results. One pioneering example of such a collaboration in family sociology is the 'Timescape project', which combines existing data drawn from seven longitudinal datasets to facilitate their collective reuse (Irwin et al 2012;Irwin and Winterton 2014). However, when teaming up by combining smaller studies, researchers need to have a reliable and standard procedure for archiving data, and a culture of using secondary data for qualitative analyses (Heaton 2008).…”

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Qualitative longitudinal research in family sociology

Bernardi¹

2021

Research Handbook on the Sociology of the Family

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The combination of qualitative interpretative approaches and longitudinal research designs, although not new in the social sciences, is gaining increasing recognition as a useful and even necessary avenue to explore family changes as they occur. Qualitative methods, whether longitudinal or not, emphasise the understanding of meanings, subjective experience, and agency. The use of such methods can improve our comprehension of how people choose a given alternative and reject another, and how they adjust or fail to adjust to their living circumstances. At the core of qualitative investigation is also an interest in understanding the meaning of the experiences of social actors in their social contexts. In family research, numerous one-off studies have investigated how different individuals and groups create, interpret, and negotiate family relationships, roles, and transitions. The longitudinal approach adds to this tradition by focusing on the course of events, as well as on the processes of change, stability, and continuity through time. At the individual level, the combination of qualitative and longitudinal research enables us to capture how individuals create meanings about the turns of their lives and their circumstances as they unfold. For instance, it is indispensable to investigate how processes like those initiated by a chronic disease, a union dissolution, or the experience of social discrimination unfold from specific socio-cultural and biographic perspectives. While one-off qualitative approaches are widely used in family sociology and have often collected retrospective information, until recently, longitudinal prospective methods were more popular in quantitative studies. 1 They are generally used to describe and measure the objective aspects of change, such as personal and social trajectories, like family relations and biographic events associated with educational, employment, and residential careers. While quantification assesses the regularities and the probability of the occurrence of social dynamics, such data are thin when it comes to accounting for the logic of the actions that underlie them. In contrast, by investigating agency and meanings, qualitative longitudinal research (QLR) has the potential to unravel the complexity of changes that are involved in the making and the unmaking of family relationships across the life course. This will not come as a surprise if we think of both agency and meanings as dynamic objects of study: individual agency co-produces the processes through which individuals live and, therefore, their experiences of change. Subjective meanings are shaped by social interactions, and shift in relation to life course events and transitions.QLR has started accumulating rich data on relational practices and multidimensional experiences of family and childhood across the life course, with change and temporality being central to their interpretation. Change can be conceived and qualitatively analysed at levels beyond just that of the individual, including at the couple, group, i...

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Gender and Work-Family Conflict: A Secondary Analysis of Timescapes Data

Cited by 5 publications

References 26 publications

Interchangeable parents? The roles and identities of primary and equal carer fathers of young children

Interchangeable parents? The roles and identities of primary and equal carer fathers of young children

Fostering habits of care: Reframing qualitative data sharing policies and practices

Qualitative longitudinal research in family sociology

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