Masculinity, Bargaining, and Breadwinning

Thébaud, Sarah

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“…In some cases, men who are dependent on their wives do even less housework than their wives (Thébaud, 2010). Furthermore, men who do housework do not do much to achieve parity or even to reverse traditional gender roles in the home (Thébaud, 2010). Das (2006) has found that women who have higher earnings enjoy egalitarian relationships in the home and have more power too.…”

Section: Household Chores and Childcarementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Scholars have found that an individual's income brings bargaining power into play in a relationship, which implies that the more an individual earns the more bargaining power the person has to do less housework (Thébaud, 2010). However, there are limits to using income as an excuse not to do housework.…”

Section: Household Chores and Childcarementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, when the wives are the breadwinners, their husbands do not necessarily do more housework. In some cases, men who are dependent on their wives do even less housework than their wives (Thébaud, 2010). Furthermore, men who do housework do not do much to achieve parity or even to reverse traditional gender roles in the home (Thébaud, 2010).…”

Section: Household Chores and Childcarementioning

confidence: 99%

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‘New’ Men and ‘New’ Women: Cultural Identity Work of Husbands and Wives Related to Housework and Childcare

Carrim¹

2017

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Existing research indicates that the number of dual-career couples is increasing and that, by implication, domestic responsibility should be equally shared between husbands and wives. However, in many societies, women's paid employment has not resulted in men assuming responsibility for domestic duties and childcare. This article examines the extent to which husbands and wives engage in cultural identity work related to household chores and childcare. A qualitative interpretivist approach was followed and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 25 Indian couples occupying different positions across various management levels in diverse South African organisations. The results of the study indicate that these husbands and wives, who come from diverse socio-economic backgrounds, engage differently in cultural identity work. Additionally, today's younger wives are more assertive and expect their husbands to be involved to a greater extent in the home and with childcare, resulting in husbands engaging in more identity work. The Indian society in South Africa is undergoing tremendous changes regarding adherence to culture, resulting in varying levels of cultural identity work taking place within dual-earner relationships.

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Section: Household Chores and Childcarementioning

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Section: Household Chores and Childcarementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Household Chores and Childcarementioning

confidence: 99%

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‘New’ Men and ‘New’ Women: Cultural Identity Work of Husbands and Wives Related to Housework and Childcare

Carrim¹

2017

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“…Mothers' performing the main breadwinner role is not a widespread phenomenon in Hungary, characterised by traditionally familialistic social policy contexts (Dupcsik and Tóth, 2014), often reflecting the logic of the 'Becker equilibrium' (Esping-Andersen, 2009: 10), a term referring to Becker's (1981) somewhat outdated -theory of household specialisation, according to which in order to achieve the highest level of household efficiency women tend to invest in domestic production, while men concentrate on market production. Therefore, according to the exchange-bargaining perspective, bargaining power is determined by the personal income position relative to the partner, and higher personal income might authorise one of the partners to carry out less work at home (Thébaud, 2010). However, this does not equally affect men and women in the breadwinner position, and the actual division of household labour does not necessarily reflect the division of the spouses' income (Yavorsky et al, 2015;Nagy, 2016).…”

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Main Breadwinner Women in Hungary and Their Work-family Balance Related Coping Strategies

Neményi¹,

Takács²

2016

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In this study, being the first Hungarian qualitative study devoted to this subject, we focus on the work-life balance situation of Hungarian women acting as main breadwinners within their family. The empirical base of our study consisted of 22 in-depth interviews conducted with Hungarian mothers of dependent children younger than 14, living in (heterosexual) couple households, who bring in at least 60 per cent of the total household earnings. We examined how the main breadwinner role might affect the gender norm expectations acquired during socialisation, the division of domestic labour and child care duties between the partners, as well as the internal power relations of the couple. According to our findings, various versions of work-life balance management could be identified even within our small-scale qualitative sample on the basis of two main dimensions. On the one hand, on the basis of our interviewees' accounts we examined whether the partners had similar role expectations in terms of egalitarian sharing of family related tasks or traditionally gendered role specialisation. On the other hand, we have also considered to what extent other contextual factors contributed to women becoming primary breadwinners, and whether these were perceived in terms of external constraints or preferred choices (or both). On the basis of our analyses we have identified four models of family relations in the context of primary female breadwinning: the traditional, the egalitarian, the externally forced role reversal and the consciously implemented role reversal models.

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“…eu/ A szülői státus, az apai és anyai szerep a férfiak és nők közötti egyenlőtlenségek egész sorát alakítja, beleértve a jövedelmi különbségeket, az időfelhasználást és a karrierutakat. A kutatók, amikor a házimunka megosztása és a szülők jövedelemszerző tevékenysége közti kapcsolatot vizsgálják, többnyire vagy a csere-alku folyamatokra (exchange-bargaining), vagy pedig a gender viszonyokra fókuszálnak (Thébaud 2010). A cserealku perspektíva szerint az alkupozíció erejét a személy relatív jövedelmi helyzete határozza meg, ami alapján a házastárshoz képest magasabb jövedelem feljogosít a kevesebb otthoni munka végzésére.…”

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Szülői feladatok és családfenntartás – amikor az anya a fő kenyérkereső

Neményi¹

2016

Socio.hu

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AbsztraktEgy nemzetközi családszociológiai kutatás részeként interjúkat készítettünk olyan, kiskorú gyermeket nevelő nők körében, akik a családi összjövedelemhez nagyobb mértékben járulnak hozzá, mint férfi társuk.Elemzésünk szerint ez a Magyarországon rendhagyónak minősülő felállás változatos módon fejtette ki hatását a családi gazdálkodás, a partneri viszonyok és a szülői szerepek gyakorlása terén. Miután a családi élet és a családi gyakorlatok nagymértékben függenek a partnerek családra és nemi szerepekre vonatkozó előzetes elképzelése-itől, négy családi modellt sikerült azonosítanunk. Amennyiben mindkét fél egyformán osztotta a hagyományos, vagy éppen az egalitáriánus szerepfelfogását, a család működését kevéssé érintette a nők fokozott jövedelem-szerző képessége. Azokban a családokban viszont, amelyekben a nő hagyományos szerepfelfogása ellenére vált családfenntartóvá és szorította háttérbe anyai és háztartási feladatait, kényszer-szülte szerepcsere történt. A szerepcsere öntudatos felvállalását pedig azok a családok példázták, amelyekben a társadalmilag elvárt viselkedéseket felülírta a nők mindkét fél által elfogadott domináns szerepe egy újfajta családi viszonyrendszerben.Kulcsszavak: kereső munka és család összeegyeztetése, családfenntartás, szülői szerepek Parenting and breadwinning -when the mother is the main breadwinner Abstract As part of an international research project in family sociology, we conducted interviews with mothers of children under 18, whose contribution to the family income is higher than that of their spouses. We have found that this situation, which is unusual in Hungary, impacts family economy, partner relations and the practising of parental roles in a variety of ways. Considering that family life and family practices greatly depend on the partners' prior notions about family and gender roles, we have identified four family models. When both partners shared traditional or egalitarian role perceptions to the same degree, the operation of the family was left largely intact by the woman's increased income generating capacity. However, in families where the woman had become the breadwinner despite her traditional role perception, pushing her motherly and domestic functions to the background, a coerced role swapping took place. A conscious assumption of changed roles is exemplified, in turn, by families where socially expected behaviours were overridden by the dominant role of the woman in a new kind of family pattern accepted by both parties.

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Masculinity, Bargaining, and Breadwinning

Cited by 180 publications

References 32 publications

‘New’ Men and ‘New’ Women: Cultural Identity Work of Husbands and Wives Related to Housework and Childcare

‘New’ Men and ‘New’ Women: Cultural Identity Work of Husbands and Wives Related to Housework and Childcare

Main Breadwinner Women in Hungary and Their Work-family Balance Related Coping Strategies

Szülői feladatok és családfenntartás – amikor az anya a fő kenyérkereső

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