Mothering and Gender Equality in Iceland: Irreconcilable Opposites?

Gíslason, Ingólfur V.; Símonardóttir, Sunna

doi:10.1017/s1474746417000525

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“…(Woman, 18–30 years, undergraduate degree)This suggests that the women writing the stories are conscious of their societal roles as the main caretakers of children and housework. This is in line with research that shows that, even in a country that has been branded as the most gender equal (Einarsdóttir, 2020) and where policies are in place to encourage fathers to be involved in the children’s upbringing, women are still expected to be the primary caretakers (Gíslason & Símonardóttir, 2018; Símonardóttir, 2016).…”

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confidence: 83%

Chaos ruined the children’s sleep, diet and behaviour: Gendered discourses on family life in pandemic times

Auðardóttir

Rúdólfsdóttir

2020

Gender Work & Organization

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This study adopts a feminist critical approach to explore how parenting was understood during the COVID‐19 restrictive measures in Iceland. Iceland has been known as a front runner in gender equality, and women’s participation in the workforce is high. Data consists of 97 stories that were collected during the peak of COVID‐19 in April 2020 using the story completion method. The stories were thematically analysed. Most of the participants were university‐educated women. The themes demonstrate the power of neoliberal discourses in framing parenting. Parenting during a pandemic, especially mothering, is constructed as an overwhelming project that requires detailed organization and management. There is also resistance to neoliberal governmentality through redefining successful parenthood. Furthermore, the gendered nature of domestic work is questioned, especially the traditional, inactive father who prioritizes his own needs only to fail comically in the domestic sphere. The study contributes to our understanding of gendered parenthood in neoliberal, pandemic times.

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confidence: 83%

Chaos ruined the children’s sleep, diet and behaviour: Gendered discourses on family life in pandemic times

Auðardóttir

Rúdólfsdóttir

2020

Gender Work & Organization

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“…4Many scholars focused on the gendered use of parenting support (e.g. Daly, 2013b; Gíslason and Símonardóttir, 2018). However, while such remarks are highly important, it is not possible to analyse the gendered nature of parenting support in this article.…”

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Parenting Support Policy in Finland: Responsibility and Competence as Key Attributes of Good Parenting in Parenting Support Projects

Sihvonen

2018

Social Policy & Society

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In Finland, parenting-related anxiety increased in the 1990s during a deep economic recession and subsequent widespread cutbacks to family services. Despite these cutbacks, resources allocated to services underlining the role of parents – namely, parenting support – increased, manifesting in the establishment of family support projects in the 2000s. Employing positioning theory and pragmatic modalities, I explore how key attributes of good parenting – responsibility and competence – are discussed within family support projects (n = 310). Given discussions regarding the relationship between parenting-related anxiety and the increasing number of parenting-related experts, this article explores parents’ positions within such discussions and overall parenting support in Finland. The analysis of projects clarifies the role of the parenting-related experts, but also provides a nuanced view of the position of parents. In some projects, for instance, parents are positioned as experts whose parenting responsibilities and competence are strengthened within peer-parent relationships and shared within the surrounding community.

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“…Another aspect that deserves more attention is the observation that the majority of the parents who receive parenting support services are women (see Table 1; Bråten and Sønsterudbråten, 2016: 15). Does this have any consequences, not only for parent–child relationships, but also for gender equality and women's opportunities (see Gíslason and Símonardóttir, 2018)? As for the provision of parenting support in Norway, we are only at the beginning of understanding what this policy is, and its effects within society.…”

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Universal Parenting Support in Norway – An Unfulfilled Promise

Sundsbø¹

2018

Social Policy & Society

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This article examines the expansion and underlying aims of structured parenting support in Norway. Norway's approach to parenting support differs from that of most other countries (Glavin and Schaffer, 2014), in supposedly being universal and offered to all parents (Eng et al., 2017). However, it is difficult to determine whether parenting support in Norway is actually unique, since little is known about how it is implemented in practice (Bråten and Sønsterudbråten, 2016; Wesseltoft-Rao et al., 2017). This article contributes further knowledge of how parenting support travels from national-level policy-making down to the level of municipal institutions where it is implemented. The analysis draws upon insights from a comprehensive case study in Bergen, Norway's second largest city, that included fieldwork observations and service mapping over a period of two years (2015–2017), a large number of in-depth interviews with various stakeholders, and analysis of relevant documents (advertisements, project applications and project reports, budgets, etc.).

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Mothering and Gender Equality in Iceland: Irreconcilable Opposites?

Cited by 28 publications

References 27 publications

Chaos ruined the children’s sleep, diet and behaviour: Gendered discourses on family life in pandemic times

Chaos ruined the children’s sleep, diet and behaviour: Gendered discourses on family life in pandemic times

Parenting Support Policy in Finland: Responsibility and Competence as Key Attributes of Good Parenting in Parenting Support Projects

Universal Parenting Support in Norway – An Unfulfilled Promise

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