Time use of Finnish fathers – do institutions matter?

The use of mobile technologies for work-to-family boundary permeability: The case of Finnish and Canadian male lawyers

“…Finnish interviewees also perceived greater legitimacy for spatial boundary permeability because remote work is popular in Finland (see Plantenga and Remery, 2010). Yet, these lawyers could also more easily set limits on this permeability due to stronger social acceptance to leave work early for childcare responsibilities (Ylikännö et al, 2014). Finnish struggling segmentors also experienced less pressure for temporal permeability in comparison with their Canadian counterparts who used self-imposed rules to resist the professional norm of unlimited availability that was encouraged by their superiors.…”

“…Although there is widespread agreement over the emergence of a new cultural ideal of fatherhood and changes to families themselves, there is also considerable debate over the extent to which an ideological shift takes place in practice for working fathers today. Fathers have increased their involvement in family life (Burnett et al, 2013;Ylikännö et al, 2014), however, for example in Finland and Quebec, fathers mostly take a leave at their child's birth, but do not take the second part of the parental leave that enables them to care for the child after their wife returns to work (Karu and Tremblay, 2017). The patterns among fathers in high-status professions are even less optimistic (Choroszewicz and Tremblay, 2018;Ladge et al, 2015;Tremblay, 2013).…”

“…F6When work-related phone calls and e-mails came unexpectedly and suddenly changed the schedule for the whole family, these interruptions created stress for both struggling segmentors and struggling integrators (see also Barley et al, 2011). This stress appeared to be especially salient for Finnish interviewees and was linked to their greater participation in their children's upbringing (Eerola, 2014;Ylikännö et al, 2014). Yet, while struggling segmentors in both countries felt it was legitimate to fortify role boundaries, struggling integrators in both countries felt stiff professional pressures not to preserve boundaries because of intense competition in the market for legal services (Gustafsson et al, 2017) and 'the specter of de-equitalisation' that has made partnership increasingly dependent on ongoing performance evaluation (Galanter and Henderson, 2008).…”

Representations of mothering of migrant Finns

“…The division of labour between parents is rarely equal in Finland, although the common discourse is that equality is something that has already been achieved. Finnish mothers take care of the children more than the fathers, and they do most of the domestic tasks such as laundry and cooking (Ylikännö, Pääkkönen and Hakovirta, 2014). Time-use studies show that Finnish mothers of children under school age spend more time doing domestic work and childcare than fathers (Miettinen and Rotkirch, 2012).…”

Vol 9 No 2 (2019)

“…Still, there is evidence of variation across generations. For example, younger men appear to be more engaged in childrearing than their predecessors, making work-family conflict more of a concern for them ( Burnett, Gatrell, Cooper, & Sparrow, 2013;Ylikännö, Pääkkönen, & Hakovirta, 2014). Furthermore, it is not clear whether child-rearing negatively impacts younger women pursuing professional careers, to the same extent it did women in previous generations.…”