Who’s (really) in charge? Mothers and executive responsibility in ‘non-traditional’ families
| Autor: | Gillian Ranson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Families, Relationships and Societies. 2:79-95 |
| ISSN: | 2046-7443 2046-7435 |
| DOI: | 10.1332/204674313x664725 |
| Popis: | While fathers are becoming increasingly involved in the day-to-day work of caring for their children, mothers have tended to retain overall responsibility for children and family life – even when they are in full-time employment and delegate much of the daily care of children to others. Less is known about the sharing of this executive responsibility in cases where fathers are alternate caregivers, or where fathers’ share of caregiving equals or exceeds that of mothers. This article explores this question by drawing on a Canadian study of ‘non-traditional’ couples in which mothers were either primary breadwinners with caregiver partners, or in dual-earner relationships where partners equally shared most caregiving work. Three main variations in the sharing of overall executive responsibility are described. The most common case, where responsibility was shared along with other dimensions of caregiving work, suggested that ‘mothering’ and ‘fathering’ as separate (and gendered) practices were also being reconfigured. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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