Essays about: "involved fatherhood"

Found 4 essays containing the words involved fatherhood.

  1. 1. Who cares? : A qualitative interview study about what hinders and what enables equal division of parental leave

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Amanda Lindell; [2023]
    Keywords : gender equality; parental leave; Sweden; gendered ideals;

    Abstract : This thesis addresses the persisting gendered division of parental leave in Sweden, where despite policies promoting equal sharing, women still take 70 % of the leave. Aiming to analyze what hinders and what enables equal division of parental leave, I conduct in-depth interviews with eight parents who equally share leave and six parents who do not. READ MORE

  3. 2. Masculinities and Fatherhood in Parenting Discourses : An Ethnographic Content Analysis of Polish Childcare Magazines for Fathers

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Claes Thunstedt; [2017]
    Keywords : fatherhood; parent’s magazines; masculinities; orthodox masculinity; Poland; involved fatherhood; traditional fatherhood.;

    Abstract : The aim of this paper is to understand how orthodox masculinities relate to ideals of involved fatherhood in journals aimed for (new) fathers. With the use of Ethnographic Content Analysis, polish parenting magazines are studied. READ MORE

  4. 3. Involved fatherhood – an analysis of gendered and classed fathering practices in Sweden

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbete

    Author : Malin Wiberg; [2015-06-24]
    Keywords : Fatherhood; practices; involvement; class; gender;

    Abstract : Sweden is one of the countries where an ideal of a more “involved fatherhood” dominates both on the political level and on the level of individual attitudes, but where despite this, fathers largely continue to assume a secondary role as parents in relation to mothers. The aim of this study was to explore and analyze how fathers construct their fatherhood and enact their fathering in this area of tension between the involved fatherhood ideal and its practice, and to do this in a way that better reflected the diversity of fathering experiences in contemporary Sweden than has been done in previous studies so far. READ MORE

  5. 4. Lad or Dad? : An analysis of some of the discourses found in fatherhood books in Britain

    University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : P-O Rehnberg; [2013]
    Keywords : Fatherhood; gender roles; parenting; discourse analysis; child-rearing; family; societal standards; norms; corpus research; British English;

    Abstract : In Britain, fathers are allowed just two weeks of paid paternity leave while mothers may take out 26 weeks of paid maternity leave. (DirectGov.uk, 2012). It could seem, then, that the mothers are expected to do most of the child rearing. READ MORE