Work-Like Balance and Fathers in Austria? Empirical Evidence at the Company Level

Bergmann, Nadja; Schiffbänker, Helene

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-53354-8_8

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“…This model has only been changing for a few decades and a modernised version of it has emerged in which the majority of women with children work part-time. In both countries, the latter arrangement has become the most common one among parents with (pre-)school children (Bergmann and Schiffbänker 2016). Currently, a shift from the modernised male breadwinner model to an adult worker model is being promoted politically (Rubery 2015).…”

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Double Fragility: The Care Crisis in the Time of the Pandemic

Scheele,

Schiffbänker,

Walker

et al. 2023

GV/GR

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The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and reinforced the structural crisis in paid and unpaid care work. On the one hand, pandemic-related closures of schools and childcare facilities increased the fragility of unpaid care arrangements, which are mainly organised by women. On the other hand, high infection and hospitalisation rates exacerbated the difficult working conditions in health-care professions, ranging from low wages and long working hours to high levels of mental and physical stress. Drawing on interviews conducted in an ongoing project in the German and Austrian health-care sector, this article investigates, from a gender perspective, how employees in health-care professions, who are at the very centre of both the unpaid and paid care crises, experienced this precarious situation during the pandemic. We suggest that the female-dominated sectors of paid and unpaid care work experienced further devaluation during the COVID-19 pandemic, while attempts to valorise their work were rather short-lived. We further argue that the structural crisis in paid care work is threatening the functionality of the health-care sector.

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Section: Care Crisis: a Manifestation Of The Global Crisis Of Social ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Double Fragility: The Care Crisis in the Time of the Pandemic

Scheele,

Schiffbänker,

Walker

et al. 2023

GV/GR

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“…Internationally, data analyses in family research and gender equality research have focused on analysing shared parental care in terms of women's labour force participation, the share of men on parental leave, and part-time work. Their participation in the private sphere via time-use statistics and qualitative analyses focus on gender at work, for instance over-time work as a male paradigm that is influenced by national and cultural working codes (among others, Matsuda et al 2018;Bergmann and Schiffbänker 2016) and gender in organizations (Funder 2016;Acker 2012;Collinson and Hearn 1994). An investigation of qualitative aspects in the distribution of paid and unpaid labour enables a more detailed identification of persistent gender imbalances, and supports the development of a better understanding of those factors that, although they counteract this, have not yet been implemented in current family and gender equality policies.…”

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Both Parents Working: Challenges and Strains in Managing the Reconciliation of Career and Family Life in Dual-Career Families. Empirical Evidence from Austria

Mauerer

2018

Social Sciences

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The presented empirical data analysis aims to shed light on the persistence of gender inequalities in sharing parenting responsibilities and addresses possible improvements for realising gender equality. In recent decades, family policies in the European Union have targeted the increase of men’s shares in parental leave (= paternal leave) as well as women’s participation in the labour market. Following the results of the Lisbon Treaty in 2000, many EU member states including Austria introduced non-transferable fathers’ quotas in their regulations on parental leave. Subsequently, the share of men on parental leave increased. Nevertheless, both in number and duration, men’s childcare allowance claims have remained lower than women’s claims. This paper investigates shared parental leave practices based on 36 interviews with fathers on paternal leave, and 14 follow-up interviews with parents after paternal leave. The qualitative data reveal the challenges that arise when both parents are faced with reconciling work and family during and after parental leave. Although the data showed that progress has been made in reducing gender inequality, the interviews make clear that employers’ attitudes perpetuate traditional gendered expectations of parental leave claims and still focus on images of a male breadwinner. Also, the distribution of gainful and family work reveals gender inequalities. The paper therefore discusses challenges that arise in the realisation of current gender and family policies in order to provide a basis for making changes that further enhance the opportunities for dual-career couples within the organisation of parental leave laws.

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Der Dual Career Mythos – Schlussfolgerungen aus empirischen Forschungen zu Väterkarenz und Elternteilzeitarbeit

Mauerer¹

2021

Gleichstellungspolitiken Revisted

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Work-Like Balance and Fathers in Austria? Empirical Evidence at the Company Level

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

Double Fragility: The Care Crisis in the Time of the Pandemic

Double Fragility: The Care Crisis in the Time of the Pandemic

Both Parents Working: Challenges and Strains in Managing the Reconciliation of Career and Family Life in Dual-Career Families. Empirical Evidence from Austria

Der Dual Career Mythos – Schlussfolgerungen aus empirischen Forschungen zu Väterkarenz und Elternteilzeitarbeit

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