The Default Model: Gender Equality, Fatherhood, and Structural Constraint

Browne, Jude

doi:10.1017/s1743923x13000020

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“…A discursive shift around ideal relationships has arguably been matched by growing legislation in social life (in the UK) around gender equality, which has been concerned to protect individual rights in matters such as pay, political representation and family life (Browne 2013), as well as a growing commitment to gender equality, especially in so far as childcare responsibilities relate to men and women's career prospects and 'work-life-balance'. Parental leave has been one key area for this drive (Gornick and Meyers 2009), with the idea that extending leave alone to fathers promotes their involvement in childcare and housework (Kotsadam and Finseraas, 2011).…”

Section: Couple Relationships and Ideals Of Equalitymentioning

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‘Utterly Heart-Breaking and Devastating’: Couple Relationships and Intensive Parenting Culture in a Time of ‘Cold Intimacies’

Faircloth

2019

Romantic Relationships in a Time of ‘Cold Intimacies’

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Based on longitudinal research with (heterosexual) couples in London, this chapter tracks their experiences of becoming parents for the first time. The suggestion is that new parents in the UK are caught in an uncomfortable confluence between competing narratives around two competing ideals: those around relationships and those around parenting. On the one hand, they must be committed to egalitarian ideas about the division of care, while at the same time parenting 'intensively', in ways which are markedly more demanding for mothers, both physically and in terms of their own 'identity work' (Faircloth 2013). Drawing on but extending the scholarship of Illouz (2007Illouz ( , 2012 with a focus on parenthood, the chapter points to the difficulty of reconciling tensions between partnering and parenting, particularly when these are based on investments and commitments beyond individual 'choices.'

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Section: Couple Relationships and Ideals Of Equalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Utterly Heart-Breaking and Devastating’: Couple Relationships and Intensive Parenting Culture in a Time of ‘Cold Intimacies’

Faircloth

2019

Romantic Relationships in a Time of ‘Cold Intimacies’

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“…As the structural theoretical viewpoint above explains, fathers’ involvement does not only depend on personal decisions but it is “more a consequence of contexts that are not of men’s choosing” (Miller, 2010, p. 172), and it reflects larger social structures that may either promote or hinder the participation of fathers in child care. Fathers are usually constrained in their degree of involvement by “national policy, the nature of their contractual employment, and, indeed, the culture of their employing institutions, communities, and society” (J. Browne, 2013, p. 162).…”

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“…Browne & England, 1997). Accordingly, as J. Browne (2013) indicates, “effective policy must be built upon a nuanced picture of not only how fathers are limited by economic considerations or driven by individual aspirations, but also of how they are constrained by a complex range of structural and institutional factors”.…”

Section: Background: Involved Fatherhood and Social Structuresmentioning

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Is Involved Fatherhood Possible? Structural Elements Influencing the Exercise of Paternity in Spain and Norway

Miguel

Gandasegui

Gorfinkiel

2019

Journal of Family Issues

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This article analyses the different ways in which fatherhood is exercised in Spain and Norway. Family transformations and the redefinition of social roles assigned to men and women have brought changes in the meanings ascribed to paternity by Western societies. The two countries analyzed have undergone these changes in different ways, as they reflect different social interpretations about fathering, dissimilar participation of women in the labor market and diverse development of family policies. The aim of the article is therefore to analyze the structural elements that shape the behavior of fathers in Spain and Norway. Methodological triangulation was applied, combining in-depth interviews in both countries with a quantitative analysis of the main databases within this area. The empirical analysis is undertaken within the structural theory perspective, which takes into account the existence of elements external to the families which influence the distribution of work within the private sphere.

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“…25For example, provision of sufficiently paid parental leave would inevitably reduce the rational calculus on the part of the employer to favour male workers in terms of employee working patterns. Also, we cannot be in any doubt that subsidised childcare enables both male and female parents to balance professional and domestic duties more efficiently (see Browne, 2006; Browne, forthcoming). …”

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The Critical Mass Marker Approach: Female Quotas and Social Justice

Browne

2013

Political Studies

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In this article I explore the theoretical and policy implications of direct state intervention into the constitution of corporate boards as a means to addressing institutional gender injustice. I consider the work of three prominent thinkers on affirmative action and institutional injustice, Ronald Dworkin, Anne Phillips and Iris Marion Young, and present an argument in favour of a specific form of state-administered female quota model which I shall call the Critical Mass Marker approach. I argue that this is a more refined and effective approach to institutional gender injustice than current affirmative action models.

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The Default Model: Gender Equality, Fatherhood, and Structural Constraint

Cited by 22 publications

References 18 publications

‘Utterly Heart-Breaking and Devastating’: Couple Relationships and Intensive Parenting Culture in a Time of ‘Cold Intimacies’

‘Utterly Heart-Breaking and Devastating’: Couple Relationships and Intensive Parenting Culture in a Time of ‘Cold Intimacies’

Is Involved Fatherhood Possible? Structural Elements Influencing the Exercise of Paternity in Spain and Norway

The Critical Mass Marker Approach: Female Quotas and Social Justice

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