Negotiating care and career within institutional constraints – work insecurity and gendered ideals of parenthood in Finland

Autor:	Johanna Närvi
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Family policy Cultural context General Social Sciences Flexibility (personality) Context (language use) Gender studies Development Temporary work Negotiation Work (electrical) Sociology Social psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Community, Work & Family. 15:451-470
ISSN:	1469-3615 1366-8803
DOI:	10.1080/13668803.2012.724827
Popis:	Parenthood still bears gendered consequences for the lives of women and men. Individualisation theories explain the different employment and care patterns as resulting from free choices concerning individual lifestyle preferences, while institutional approaches underline the significance of structural or cultural context in creating constraints or possibilities in individuals' lives. In this article, mothers' and fathers' choices concerning care and career are examined in the Finnish context of gender equal family policy and employment flexibility. Two kinds of flexibility are analysed: part-time work, which is rare even for mothers; and temporary work, the use of which is strongly gendered and concerns especially highly educated young women. Analysing 29 qualitative semistructured interviews of Finnish parents, the study shows how mothers' and fathers' diverse preferences are negotiated into choices between structural frames created by labour market instability and cultural conceptions about the division...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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