Institutions as reference points for parents-to-be in European societies: a theoretical and analytical framework

Grunow, Daniela; Veltkamp, Gerlieke

doi:10.4337/9781785366000.00009

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“…Drawing on policy feedback theory, Gangl and Ziefle () empirically tested the role exposure and norm‐setting mechanisms in Germany and found that the extension of parental leave generated cultural change by influencing individual preferences, ideologies, and behavior. According to this research, policy feedback affects individual gender ideologies in the sense that policies themselves serve as cultural and normative reference points for individuals (see also Grunow & Veltkamp, ). In addition, mass opinion and thus dominant gender ideologies have been identified as major obstacles for the implementation of more transformative, gender‐egalitarian work – family policies in Europe (Morgan, , p. 48).…”

Section: Gender Ideology—concept and State Of Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender Ideologies in Europe: A Multidimensional Framework

Grunow

Begall

Buchler

2018

J of Marriage and Family

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The authors argue, in line with recent research, that operationalizing gender ideology as a unidimensional construct ranging from traditional to egalitarian is problematic and propose an alternative framework that takes the multidimensionality of gender ideologies into account. Using latent class analysis, they operationalize their gender ideology framework based on data from the 2008 European Values Study, of which eight European countries reflecting the spectrum of current work–family policies were selected. The authors examine the form in which gender ideologies cluster in the various countries. Five ideology profiles were identified: egalitarian, egalitarian essentialism, intensive parenting, moderate traditional, and traditional. The five ideology profiles were found in all countries, but with pronounced variation in size. Ideologies mixing gender essentialist and egalitarian views appear to have replaced traditional ideologies, even in countries offering some institutional support for gendered separate spheres.

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Section: Gender Ideology—concept and State Of Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender Ideologies in Europe: A Multidimensional Framework

Grunow

Begall

Buchler

2018

J of Marriage and Family

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191

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“…However, especially parents who had pursued non-normative and thus more gender-egalitarian plans to share breadwinning and caregiving before their babies were born struggled with these constructions and had to find strategies, as individual parents or as a parental couple, to integrate these notions in their plans and ways of reconciliation in their daily lives. This article focused on these parents, as between these fathers and mothers, a gender-equal division of childcare is more likely (Grunow and Veltkamp 2016). In the following, we have illustrated our findings by analyzing examples and experiences of typical cases.…”

Section: Integrating or Opposing Constructions Of Gendered Parental Rmentioning

confidence: 76%

“…The presented results, however, show that employers' and colleagues' evaluations of women's involvement in caregiving during and after the transition to parenthood and their views on men's role as responsible for the family income are highly relevant, in particular, when parents decided against normative arrangements of breadwinning and childcare. These parents could be considered most likely to renegotiate gendered responsibilities (Grunow and Veltkamp 2016) and were thus the focus of this article.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Parents’ Strategies in Dealing with Constructions of Gendered Responsibilities at Their Workplaces

Mauerer

Schmidt

2019

Social Sciences

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This paper, which is based on qualitative research conducted in Austria, focuses on current gender inequalities between parents in fulfilling their parental responsibilities, which means reconciling the responsibilities of childcare and earning a living. Austria is characterized by a substantial gender gap in men’s and women’s labor force participation and a system that provides particularly long parental leaves. These foster long-term gender inequalities in parents’ careers and involvement in family life after their transition to parenthood. Against this background, we analyzed constructions of parental responsibilities parents face at their workplaces, and how these constructions shape parents’ decisions on sharing parental responsibilities. The findings demonstrate the relevance of parental norms that comprise a father’s main responsibility as breadwinner and a mother’s primary responsibility as a caregiver, constructed and reproduced by parents’ colleagues and employers. Consequently, for parents who try to share their breadwinning and caregiving in a non-normative (and more gender-equal) way, both parents are forced to find strategies in dealing with normative constructions. These strategies range from making a ‘conscious decision’, insisting on the original plan, and challenging predominant norms at workplaces, through quitting the job and looking for another employer, to modifying or giving up the originally planned arrangement.

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“…In the volume preceding this one, we showed that national gender culture may or may not fit well with existing family policies. We referred to this phenomenon as a policy-culture gap (Grunow and Veltkamp 2016). For the analyses presented in this volume, we demonstrate that smaller policy-culture gaps (such as in egalitarian Sweden and the gender essentialist Czech Republic) better enable pre-birth plans to become post-birth realities.…”

Section: Analytical Layers Addressed In This Bookmentioning

confidence: 82%

“…The accounts analysed in this book are thus not statistically representative of new parents in a given institutional context (see Chapter 3). They mostly reflect the views and experiences of the better educated and more privileged new parents in their country, as these are the couples whom we expect to be at the forefront of renegotiating gendered transitions to parenthood (Grunow and Veltkamp 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

Institutions as reference points for parents-to-be in European societies: a theoretical and analytical framework

Cited by 21 publications

References 55 publications

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Gender Ideologies in Europe: A Multidimensional Framework

Parents’ Strategies in Dealing with Constructions of Gendered Responsibilities at Their Workplaces

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