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Negotiating work-life balance, gender equality and parenting: drivers and ambivalences in dual-earner/dual-carer couples
Publication . Cunha, Vanessa; Marinho, Sofia
Work-life balance of couples with
young children is a recurrent topic in
Portuguese policy since the 1974 Revolution,
which led to a growing promotion
of the dual-earner/dual-carer model within
an inclusive gender equality agenda.
Drawing on the analysis of Portuguese
family policies evolution, quantitative
data (official statistics and ISSP 2012)
and on the narratives of two dual-earner/
dual carer couples, we depict the exogenous
and endogenous forces that are driving
a less uneven work-life balance, but
also gender ambivalences that are slowing
down the pace towards equal sharing of
home production and parenting for men
and women. Results show that public and
private spheres are becoming less gendered,
owing to the strong commitment
of women with full-time paid-work and to the increasing involvement of men in
early childcare, and this comes along with
a new sense of entitlement, for men and
women, to negotiate gender roles in family
life. On the other hand, they show that
even if gender equality as a societal desideratum
is a pervasive norm for young
generations, and even if it´s evident the
developing shift towards more equal sharing
patterns among young dual-earner/
dual-carer couples, ambivalences regarding
gender roles in mothering and fathering
(and inherent gender privileges)
are operating as a reflex of an incomplete
revolution in Portuguese society.
Separate Mothering and Fathering: The Plurality of Parenting Within the Framework of Postdivorce Shared Parenting Norms
Publication . Marinho, Sofia
This article explores the components and the plurality of everyday parenting among separated mothers and fathers. Drawing on an online survey of 114 mothers and fathers, it presents a topological analysis of mothers’ and fathers’ child-rearing activities and decision-making; unilateral, parallel and negotiated relationships; residence and contact; and legal orders. The findings revealed five mothering and fathering patterns: ‘unilateral’, ‘traditional residential’ and ‘interchangeable’ mothering; and ‘involved non-residential’ and ‘interchangeable’ fathering. They disclose the relational and gendered structures of motherhood and fatherhood practice and social representation that are shaping post-separation parenting within the legal framework of shared parenting.
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
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SFRH
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SFRH/BPD/84273/2012