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Caring Is Sharing? : Couples Navigating Parental Leave at the Transition to Parenthood
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: London : UCL Press, 2024Description: 1 Online-Ressource (258 p.)ISBN:- 9781800087446
- 9781800087439
- 331.257630942
- HD6065.5.G7
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Summary: Caring is Sharing? explores how mixed-sex couples make decisions around parental leave and how these decisions shape their work and family care practices. Drawing on a longitudinal study of couples in England, it shows that practices of couple intimacy influence the processes through which they enact divisions of parental leave and carePPN: PPN: 1919909028Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
1 The promise of shared parental leave: introduction to the study -- Part I, Decisions around parental leave. 2 Encountering barriers to the take-up of shared parental leave: 'non-sharers' ; 3 Why and how some couples decide to share leave: 'sharers' -- Part II, Experiences of the leave period. 4 Non-sharers' experiences and practices during the first year after their child is born ; 5 Leave sharers' experiences and practices during the first year after their child is born -- Part III, After the leave is over. 6 Breadwinning fathers and primary care mothers -- 7 Mothers as family managers -- 8 Parents sharing responsibilities of paid and unpaid work -- 9 Does shared parental leave live up to its promise? Concluding thoughts.
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