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Andrea Doucet - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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do men mother fathering care and Domestic Responsibility
2006Co-Authors: Andrea DoucetAbstract:Acknowledgments Introduction: Do Men Mother? Part One: Coming to Know Fathers' Stories * Studying Men, Mothering, and Fathering * Knowing Fathers' Stories through Gossamer Walls * Understanding Fathers as Primary Caregivers Part Two: Do Men Mother? Fathering and Responsibilities * Fathers and Emotional Responsibility * Fathers and Community Responsibility * Fathering, Mothering, and Moral Responsibility Part Three: Conclusion and Postscript: Men and Fathering * Conclusion: Men Reconstructing Fathering Postscript: Revisiting an Epistemology of Reception Appendix A Who Are the Fathers? Appendix B Interviewing: 'Coaxing' Fathers' Stories Appendix C Data Analysis: The Listening Guide Notes References Index
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you see the need perhaps more clearly than i have exploring gendered processes of Domestic Responsibility
Journal of Family Issues, 2001Co-Authors: Andrea DoucetAbstract:Drawing on a qualitative research study conducted in Britain in the early to mid-1990s with heterosexual-couple households with dependent children, the article explores Domestic Responsibility for children through a discussion of two distinct and related conceptions of Domestic Responsibility, emotional Responsibility and interhousehold Responsibility. Rooted in feminist research on Domestic and community life, family sociology on gender divisions of Domestic labor, and a symbolic interactionist approach to human relations, the article argues for a conceptualization of Domestic Responsibility that is constantly negotiated, relational and interactional, intrahousehold and interhousehold, and material and “moral.” The article also details an innovative methodological contribution for collecting data on the gender division of Domestic labor: the Household Portrait technique. Theoretical and empirical implications include the need for greater emphasis on the interhousehold dimensions—both material and normati...
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there s a huge gulf between me as a male carer and women gender Domestic Responsibility and the community as an institutional arena
Community Work & Family, 2000Co-Authors: Andrea DoucetAbstract:This paper explores the persistent link between women and Domestic Responsibility, a link that has been heavily documented and yet much less frequently theorised. Drawing on a qualitative research project with a 'critical case' study sample of couples trying to share housework and childcare in Britain in the early 1990s the paper argues that part of this puzzle linking women and Domestic Responsibility can be addressed by adopting wider definitions of Domestic Responsibility and of community. While Domestic Responsibility is often conceived as family labour that occurs within families/households, it also has inter-household, inter-institutional and community dimensions. With regard to a wider conceptualisation of the community, the paper argues that the community is more than a social institution; it is an institutional arena within which families/households, inter-household relations, community-based social networks and a wide array of community activities occur. The overall findings and implications of ...
Andrew Steptoe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the contribution of gender role orientation work factors and home stressors to psychological well being and sickness absence in male and female dominated occupational groups
Social Science & Medicine, 2002Co-Authors: Olga Evans, Andrew SteptoeAbstract:The associations of work stress, types of work and gender-role orientation with psychological well-being and sickness absence were investigated in a questionnaire survey of 588 male and female nurses and 387 male and female accountants. We hypothesised that health might be impaired among women working in the male-dominated occupation (accountancy), and men in the female-dominated occupation (nursing), but that effects might be moderated by job strain (perceptions of high demand and low control), work and home hassles, and traditional male (instrumentality) and female (expressivity) psychological characteristics. Responses were analysed from 172 female and 61 male nurses, and from 53 female and 81 male commercial accountants. Female accountants were more likely than other groups to have high anxiety scores on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scales, while male nurses had the highest rates of sickness absence. Male nurses and female accountants also reported more work-related hassles than did female nurses and male accountants. Men and women in the same occupation did not differ in job strain or job social support, but nurses reported greater job strain than accountants, due to higher ratings of demands and lower skill utilisation. After adjusting for age, sex, occupation, paid work hours and a measure of social desirability bias, risk of elevated anxiety was independently associated with higher job strain, lower job social support, more work hassles, more Domestic Responsibility, lower instrumentality and higher expressivity. The association between sex and anxiety was no longer significant after instrumentality had been entered into the regression model. Sickness absence of more than three days over the past 12 months was independently associated with higher job strain, more work hassles, lower instrumentality and higher expressivity. The results suggest that when men and women occupy jobs in which they are in the cultural and numerical minority, there may be adverse health effects that are gender-specific. Psychological traits related to socially constructed gender roles may also be relevant, and mediate in part the differences in psychological well-being between men and women.
Olga Evans - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the contribution of gender role orientation work factors and home stressors to psychological well being and sickness absence in male and female dominated occupational groups
Social Science & Medicine, 2002Co-Authors: Olga Evans, Andrew SteptoeAbstract:The associations of work stress, types of work and gender-role orientation with psychological well-being and sickness absence were investigated in a questionnaire survey of 588 male and female nurses and 387 male and female accountants. We hypothesised that health might be impaired among women working in the male-dominated occupation (accountancy), and men in the female-dominated occupation (nursing), but that effects might be moderated by job strain (perceptions of high demand and low control), work and home hassles, and traditional male (instrumentality) and female (expressivity) psychological characteristics. Responses were analysed from 172 female and 61 male nurses, and from 53 female and 81 male commercial accountants. Female accountants were more likely than other groups to have high anxiety scores on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scales, while male nurses had the highest rates of sickness absence. Male nurses and female accountants also reported more work-related hassles than did female nurses and male accountants. Men and women in the same occupation did not differ in job strain or job social support, but nurses reported greater job strain than accountants, due to higher ratings of demands and lower skill utilisation. After adjusting for age, sex, occupation, paid work hours and a measure of social desirability bias, risk of elevated anxiety was independently associated with higher job strain, lower job social support, more work hassles, more Domestic Responsibility, lower instrumentality and higher expressivity. The association between sex and anxiety was no longer significant after instrumentality had been entered into the regression model. Sickness absence of more than three days over the past 12 months was independently associated with higher job strain, more work hassles, lower instrumentality and higher expressivity. The results suggest that when men and women occupy jobs in which they are in the cultural and numerical minority, there may be adverse health effects that are gender-specific. Psychological traits related to socially constructed gender roles may also be relevant, and mediate in part the differences in psychological well-being between men and women.
Beglaubter Judith - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Negotiating Fathers’ Care: Canadian Fathers’ Leave-taking as Conformity and Change
2019Co-Authors: Beglaubter JudithAbstract:Despite some changes to the ways contemporary families are handling the allocation of paid and unpaid work, the path of least resistance still tends be maternal caregiving with mothers more likely than fathers to cut back on their employment or drop out of the workforce entirely. Because men typically maintain, and may even strengthen, their ties to the labour market at the transition to parenthood, offering them paid parental leave is thought to provide an important opportunity for fathers to develop the skills and sense of Responsibility that are characteristic of mothers’ parenting, ultimately reducing gender inequality in families. Although leave schemes that specifically target fathers are praised for their high usage rates, there has been little research into the quality of men’s time at home. This dissertation addresses this gap in the literature by probing the time-bounded and gender-laden circumstances of early parenthood to consider the ways in which fathers’ early involvement might set the stage for their greater participation in Domestic life. I do so by examining how Canadian fathers come to use, experience, and act in response to their time on parental leave. The men in this study waxed enthusiastically about the parenting skills and emotional bonds they developed while on leave. Many were so moved by the experience that they came to incorporate the values and practices of care into their identities. Yet at the same time, the allocation of leave time and couple’s subsequent divisions of housework and Domestic Responsibility remained gendered. Couples had to engage with gendered cultural expectations that took men’s employment for granted but allowed them greater leeway than women when it came to meeting parenting standards. Nevertheless, I argue that the transformative potential of fathers’ leave-taking should not be dismissed – even small changes to couples’ gendered roles and fathers’ identities are important in undoing gender inequality.Ph.D
Kelechi P Uzoma - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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effects of Domestic Responsibility on female employees productivity in nigeria banking labour force a study of union bank plc and access bank owerri
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SOCIAL SCIENCES PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES, 2020Co-Authors: Anthanasius C Nwachukwu, Anthony O Osuji, Kelechi P UzomaAbstract:Motherhood leads to a definite bias in employment for women seeking a job in traditionally male settings (Heilman & Okimoto, 2008). In general, parenting alters the perspective in both men and women in terms of anticipated work focus, particularly creating expectations of undependability. There is an underlying assumption that the functions of mother and wife have relatively less stress, as they are natural roles, whereas the role of employee, being unnatural, is therefore highly demanding. This may question the ability of a woman to handle multiple roles without significant ill effects. There is a substantial rhetoric based on the relationship between many abnormal employments to numerous social vices such as drug addiction and juvenile delinquency (Barnett, 2004).