2022
DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12875
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Parental leave‐taking and perceptions of workers as good parents

Abstract: Objective This study examines whether parental leave‐taking affects perceptions of workers as good parents, and whether this relationship varies between mothers and fathers. Background Contemporary parenthood norms promote intensive parenting, but pressures to engage in intensive parenting are more pronounced for mothers than fathers. Paid parental leave policies have the potential to improve gender equality, but only if such policies help to change gendered parenting norms. We assess whether leave‐taking furt… Show more

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“…A perceived lack of support at an organisational level has been identified as a negative predictor of paternal leave-taking [ 15 , 16 ]. Workplace norms characterised by the ideal unencumbered worker amplify the expectation that men are indispensable to the workplace [ 17 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A perceived lack of support at an organisational level has been identified as a negative predictor of paternal leave-taking [ 15 , 16 ]. Workplace norms characterised by the ideal unencumbered worker amplify the expectation that men are indispensable to the workplace [ 17 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the traditionally male-dominated domain of family breadwinning, marriages have better outcomes when wives play a supporting part in earning the family income than when wives take on the essential position of breadwinner ( 40 ). In the female-dominated domain of family caregiver, men are evaluated negatively for filling the essential caregiving role of stay-at-home fathers ( 41 ) or for taking extended family leave, which signals a primary caretaking position ( 42 ). Yet, men are viewed more positively than are women when they fill supportive roles in female domains, such as reducing work hours to help out with the family’s needs ( 43 ) or taking shorter leaves from work for supportive or interim caretaking ( 42 ).…”
Section: Role Congruity Theorymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the female-dominated domain of family caregiver, men are evaluated negatively for filling the essential caregiving role of stay-at-home fathers ( 41 ) or for taking extended family leave, which signals a primary caretaking position ( 42 ). Yet, men are viewed more positively than are women when they fill supportive roles in female domains, such as reducing work hours to help out with the family’s needs ( 43 ) or taking shorter leaves from work for supportive or interim caretaking ( 42 ). It seems that those in the gender minority are not penalized for entering gender incongruent domains when they are simply facilitating the more supposedly genuine members of that domain.…”
Section: Role Congruity Theorymentioning
confidence: 99%