Einleitung: Geschlechterungleichheiten im Betrieb

Klenner, Christina; Krell, Gertraude; Maschke, Manuela

doi:10.5771/9783845266565-9

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“…Work organizations do increasingly advertise family‐work reconciliation measures also to their male employees. Yet two thirds of all employed German fathers do not take parental leave, their average working hours are longer after having their first child, and only a small percentage of fathers work part‐time (Klenner & Lott, 2016). For example, in 2019, while the part‐time rate of mothers (69%) was almost twice as high as that of women without children, fathers (6%) were even less likely to work part‐time than childless men (10%) (Hobler et al., 2019).…”

Section: Context: Germany and The Organizational Promoters Of Father‐...mentioning

confidence: 99%

New fathers, ideal workers? New players in the field of father‐friendly work organizations

Balan

Brink

2022

Gender Work & Organization

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This article explores novel forms of proactive support for fathers in organizations and analyzes how newly instituted organizational promoters of father-friendliness in Germany (organizational consultants, fathers' representatives, and fathers' networks) legitimize and strengthen organizational acceptance of fathers' use of family-friendly workplace arrangements. Bringing together the notions of organizational masculinity, the ideal worker norm, and postfeminism, the paper focuses on caring formations of postfeminist masculinity at work and how they contribute to gender change in organizations. The analysis shows that organizational promoters construct father-friendliness in three ways (I) by constructing a new, "caring" organizational masculinity, (II) by creating organizational value for care-related practices, (III) by framing father-friendliness as a prerequisite for gender equality. Our theoretical argument is that configurations of positive masculinities are possible within a postfeminist culture, and they produce incremental yet limited gender change through a reshaped organizational masculinity and a reframed "ideal worker" within organizations. The study of a rather unique group of change agents in organizations shows how additional offerings for fathers might contribute to changing gendered assumptions about care in organizations.

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Section: Context: Germany and The Organizational Promoters Of Father‐...mentioning

confidence: 99%