Dual Earner Parents Strategies for Reconciling Work and Care in Seven European countries

Dual Earner Parents Strategies for Reconciling Work and Care in Seven European countries

Women with young children are increasingly employed full time across the whole EU, including those countries where it was not traditional. This makes the management of work and care a major concern for dual earner households throughout Europe.  In this paper we identify five main household work stra...

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Main Authors: Abbott, Pamela, Nativel, Corinne, Wallace, Claire
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Language:Anglais
Published: Observatoire de la société britannique 2013
Subjects:
full-time paid employment
Austria
Denmark
Hungary
Italy
Poland
domestic duty
dual earner household
United Kingdom (UK)
work strategy
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:osb_1521 https://doi.org/10.4000/osb.1521 urn:doi:10.4000/osb.1521 en https://journals.openedition.org/osb/1521 2013-09-04T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/is1l All rights reserved Dual Earner Parents Strategies for Reconciling Work and Care in Seven European countries Observatoire de la société britannique Université de Toulon info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1775-4135 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1957-3383 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/osb Abbott, Pamela Nativel, Corinne Wallace, Claire full-time paid employment Austria Denmark Hungary Italy Poland domestic duty dual earner household United Kingdom (UK) work strategy Women with young children are increasingly employed full time across the whole EU, including those countries where it was not traditional. This makes the management of work and care a major concern for dual earner households throughout Europe.  In this paper we identify five main household work strategies: shift working, flexible working, informal care arrangements, formal care arrangements and self-sufficiency by examining the narrative accounts of parents in seven countries (Austria, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal and the UK). These strategies are spread across most countries, irrespective of policies and cultures, but there are systematic variations within countries. Although fathers are more involved in childcare than in the past, the extent of fathers’ involvement in the domestic sphere was limited. In dual earner households, mothers take on full-time paid employment while remaining responsible for the bulk of child care and domestic duties.
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topic full-time paid employment
Austria
Denmark
Hungary
Italy
Poland
domestic duty
dual earner household
United Kingdom (UK)
work strategy
spellingShingle full-time paid employment
Austria
Denmark
Hungary
Italy
Poland
domestic duty
dual earner household
United Kingdom (UK)
work strategy
Abbott, Pamela
Nativel, Corinne
Wallace, Claire
Dual Earner Parents Strategies for Reconciling Work and Care in Seven European countries
description Women with young children are increasingly employed full time across the whole EU, including those countries where it was not traditional. This makes the management of work and care a major concern for dual earner households throughout Europe.  In this paper we identify five main household work strategies: shift working, flexible working, informal care arrangements, formal care arrangements and self-sufficiency by examining the narrative accounts of parents in seven countries (Austria, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal and the UK). These strategies are spread across most countries, irrespective of policies and cultures, but there are systematic variations within countries. Although fathers are more involved in childcare than in the past, the extent of fathers’ involvement in the domestic sphere was limited. In dual earner households, mothers take on full-time paid employment while remaining responsible for the bulk of child care and domestic duties.
author Abbott, Pamela
Nativel, Corinne
Wallace, Claire
author_facet Abbott, Pamela
Nativel, Corinne
Wallace, Claire
author_sort Abbott, Pamela
title Dual Earner Parents Strategies for Reconciling Work and Care in Seven European countries
title_short Dual Earner Parents Strategies for Reconciling Work and Care in Seven European countries
title_full Dual Earner Parents Strategies for Reconciling Work and Care in Seven European countries
title_fullStr Dual Earner Parents Strategies for Reconciling Work and Care in Seven European countries
title_full_unstemmed Dual Earner Parents Strategies for Reconciling Work and Care in Seven European countries
title_sort dual earner parents strategies for reconciling work and care in seven european countries
publisher Observatoire de la société britannique
publishDate 2013
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