Fatherhood In The Nordic Welfare States

Author : Eydal, Guðný Björk,Rostgaard, Tine
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781447321149

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Fatherhood in the Nordic welfare states by Eydal, Guðný Björk,Rostgaard, Tine Pdf

The five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, are well-known for their extensive welfare system and gender equality which provides both parents with opportunities to earn and care for their children. In this topical book, expert scholars from the Nordic countries, as well as UK and the US, demonstrate how modern fatherhood is supported in the Nordic setting through family and social policies, and how these contribute to shaping and influencing the images, roles and practices of fathers in a diversity of family settings and variations of fatherhoods. This comprehensive volume will have wide international appeal for those who look to Nordic countries and their success in creating gender equal societies.

Author : Cederström, Carl
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789289363952

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State of Nordic Fathers by Cederström, Carl Pdf

Fatherhood norms have changed considerably in the Nordic countries over the past decades. The sight of a father pushing his baby in a pram is no longer rare, and parental leave is no longer for mothers only. Yet parental leave is still not shared equally, despite parents having the right. Nordic fathers only use 10-30 percent of the total leave. State of Nordic Fathers examines why; and identifies possible avenues to increase fathers’ share of childcare and leave. 10 key findings reveal that fathers’ involvement is a key to gender equality and fathers who have taken long leave distinguish themselves in many respects from those who took none. State of Nordic Fathers is based on a survey capturing the attitudes of 7515 men and women, mostly parents, in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, on childcare work, parental leave, masculinity norms, and workplace and family relationships.

Author : Ellingsæter, Anne Lise,Leira, Arnlaug
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 186134645X

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Politicising Parenthood in Scandinavia by Ellingsæter, Anne Lise,Leira, Arnlaug Pdf

Talks about the politicising of parenthood in the Scandinavian welfare states. This book focuses on the relationship between parents and the state, and the renegotiations between the public and the private. It explores policy discourses, scrutinises outcomes, and presents the similarities and differences between Nordic countries.

Author : Arnlaug Leira
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521571294

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Working Parents and the Welfare State by Arnlaug Leira Pdf

This book uses data from Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden to rethink welfare policy.

Author : Adler, Marina A.,Lenz, Karl
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447319009

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Father Involvement in the Early Years by Adler, Marina A.,Lenz, Karl Pdf

Fatherhood is in transition and being challenged by often contradictory forces: societal mandates to be both an active father and provider, men’s own wish to be more involved with their children, and the institutional arrangements in which fathers work and live. This book explores these phenomena in the context of cross-national policies and their relation to the daily childcare practices of fathers. It presents the current state of knowledge on father involvement with young children in six countries from different welfare state regimes with unique policies related to parenting in general and fathers in particular: Finland, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, the UK and the USA.

Author : Johanna Hiitola,Kati Turtiainen,Sabine Gruber,Marja Tiilikainen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429656118

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Family Life in Transition by Johanna Hiitola,Kati Turtiainen,Sabine Gruber,Marja Tiilikainen Pdf

This volume examines the ways in which bordering practices influence the everyday lives of racialized parents in the changing welfare states of Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Focusing on the need to negotiate, adjust, and reconcile family life, parenthood and parenting practices in the face of national, material, ideological, cultural, religious, and moral borders, it considers the manner in which these processes are complicated by recent changes in the legitimation of Nordic welfare states. The case studies centre on migrant, refugee, and asylum seeker parents, as well as parents of the indigenous Sámi communities. The book considers the ways in which the welfare state and its services construct borders of respectable parenthood, and examines the efforts on the part of racialized parents to negotiate such borders and organize their transnational everyday lives. Uncovering possibilities and obstacles that exist for families seeking to enact citizenship in the Nordic welfare states, Family Life in Transition will appeal to social scientists with interests in the sociology of the family, children, parenting, and the welfare state.

Author : Brandth, Berit,Kvande, Elin
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781529201598

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Designing Parental Leave Policy by Brandth, Berit,Kvande, Elin Pdf

Nordic countries lead the way in facilitating better work-family integration through their design of parental leave policies that encourage men towards life courses with greater care responsibilities. Based on original research, this compelling book offers a novel analysis of the everyday parental practices on fathers and parents in Norway as a way of understanding the workings of labour market and welfare policies, whilst considering how migrant fathers might relate to the expectations such laws generate. The authors showcase how this style of men’s care work constitutes a re-gendering of men by promoting ‘caring masculinities’.

Author : Michael Rush
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784991616

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Between two worlds of father politics by Michael Rush Pdf

The essential message of the ‘two regimes’ model is that the social politics of fatherhood have taken on a global significance and that the USA and Sweden represent two ends of an international continuum of ways of thinking about fatherhood. The key selling points of the two regimes model are its topicality, originality, its global appeal, and its particularised appeal to readers in the USA, the Nordic countries, Great Britain, Ireland, the European Union, Japan and China. The book offers students a comparative analytical framework and new insights into why some welfare states have ‘father-friendly’ social policies and others do not. The book makes an original contribution to the growing fields of welfare regime and gender studies by linking the epochal decline of patriarchal fatherhood to welfare state expansion over the course of the twentieth century and it raises new questions about the legitimacy of religiously inspired neo-patriarchy.

Author : Lise Lotte Hansen,Hanne Marlene Dahl,Laura Horn
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781447361350

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A Care Crisis in the Nordic Welfare States? by Lise Lotte Hansen,Hanne Marlene Dahl,Laura Horn Pdf

Academic experts review the impact of neoliberal politics and ideology on the status of care work in Nordic countries.

Author : Margaret O'Brien,Karin Wall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319429700

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Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality by Margaret O'Brien,Karin Wall Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. This book portrays men’s experiences of home alone leave and how it affects their lives and family gender roles in different policy contexts and explores how this unique parental leave design is implemented in these contrasting policy regimes. The book brings together three major theoretical strands: social policy, in particular the literature on comparative leave policy developments; family and gender studies, in particular the analysis of gendered divisions of work and care and recent shifts in parenting and work-family balance; critical studies of men and masculinities, with a specific focus on fathers and fathering in contemporary western societies and life-courses. Drawing on empirical data from in-depth interviews with fathers across eleven countries, the book shows that the experiences and social processes associated with fathers’ home alone leave involve a diversity of trends, revealing both innovations and absence of change, including pluralization as well as the constraining influence of policy, gender, and social context. As a theoretical and empirical book it raises important issues on modernization of the life course and the family in contemporary societies. The book will be of particular interest to scholars in comparing western societies and welfare states as well as to scholars seeking to understand changing work-life policies and family life in societies with different social and historical pathways.

Author : Brandth, Berit,Kvande, Elin
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781529201604

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Designing Parental Leave Policy by Brandth, Berit,Kvande, Elin Pdf

Nordic countries lead the way in facilitating better work-family integration through their design of parental leave policies that encourage men towards life courses with greater care responsibilities. Based on original research, this compelling book offers a novel analysis of the everyday parental practices of fathers and parents in Norway as a way of understanding the workings of labour market and welfare policies, whilst considering how migrant fathers might relate to the expectations such laws generate. The authors showcase how this style of men’s care work constitutes a re-gendering of men by promoting ‘caring masculinities’.

Author : Johan Fritzell,Bjorn Hvinden,Mikko Kautto,Jon Kvist,Hannu Uusitalo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134579013

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Nordic Welfare States in the European Context by Johan Fritzell,Bjorn Hvinden,Mikko Kautto,Jon Kvist,Hannu Uusitalo Pdf

This important sequel to Nordic Social Policy (Routledge 1999) compares welfare state development over the last twenty years in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden with that of Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and other Western European countries. Topics covered include: * income distribution, health inequalities and gender equality * gender policies, health and social care services and policy reaction to family changes * social security and employment policies * financing of welfare states. In the context of globalisation, ageing populations, changing employment patterns and rising inequalities, Nordic Welfare States in the European Context offers an empirical analysis of welfare adaptations and a lively discussion of the historical development of European social policy. It finds a greater ambiguity regarding variation and trends than is commonly suggested. Contrary to expectation, there is little evidence of the Europeanisation of Nordic welfare states, rather the reverse. The comparable and empirical data used in this study make it a unique contribution to understanding current trends in European social policy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9289363940

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State of nordic fathers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jon Kvist
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847426598

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Changing Social Equality by Jon Kvist Pdf

Taking a comparative perspective, this book casts new light on the changing inequalities in Europe.

Author : Elisabetta Ruspini,Isabella Crespi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137533548

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Balancing Work and Family in a Changing Society by Elisabetta Ruspini,Isabella Crespi Pdf

Both research and policy on balancing work and family life have tended to focus on mothers' lives. There has been a general lack of comparative research to the complex intersection between old and new forms of masculinity; and between fatherhood, work-life balance, gender relations and children's well-being. As a result, men's fathering roles and their struggle with work-life balance have often been neglected. These cultural challenges should be better theorized within family and social policy research. This volume examines how fathers fulfill their roles both within the family and at work and what institutional support could be of most benefit to them in combining these roles.