New Parents in Europe: Work-Care Practices, Gender Norms and Family Policies

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New Parents in Europe

Work-Care Practices, Gender Norms and Family Policies

Edited by

Daniela Grunow

and

Marie Evertsson

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This innovative book explores the different ways in which dual-earner couples in contemporary welfare states plan for, realize and justify their divisions of work and care during the transition to parenthood. Providing a unique comparative, longitudinal and qualitative analysis of new parents in eight European countries, this timely book explicitly locates couples’ beliefs and negotiations in the wider context of national institutional structures.

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Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
Part I: Conceptual framework and comparative overview
Part II: The Scandinavian model of dual-earning and dual-caring
- Chapter 4: Realized plans or revised dreams? Swedish parents experiences of care, parental leave and paid work after childbirth
Part III: Varieties of earning and caring in conservative welfare states
Part IV: Earning and caring under conditions of unsupportive familialism
- Chapter 8: The transition to parenthood in Italy: reasons for non-normativity
- Chapter 9: Non-normative couples in Spain: mothers career commitment, fathers work arrangements, and egalitarian ideologies
Part V: New welfare states' responses to dual earning and caring
- Chapter 10: It is not something we consciously do: Polish couples struggles to maintain gender equality after the birth of their first child
- Chapter 11: Non-normative parents in the gender-traditional Czech Republic
Part VI: Drawing conclusions: a comparative perspective on new parenthood in Europe
- Chapter 12: Swimming against the tide or going with the flow? Stories of work-care practices, parenting norms and the importance of policies in a changing Europe
Index

Monograph Book

Published:: 31 May 2019

Print ISBN:: 9781788972963

eISBN:: 9781788972970

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972970

Pages:: c 272

Collection:: Social and Political Science 2019

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- Sociology and Social Policy

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