Recientemente se han publicado dos trabajos muy interesantes sobre el nuevo rol de los hombres en la dinámica familiar para el caso español. Uno en Journal of Family Issues sobre cómo algunas parejas consiguen mantener un reparto 60/40 en las tareas domésticas después del nacimiento de la primera criatura y otro en Community, Work & Family sobre las posibilidades percibidas por los varones de pedir reducción de jornada en su empresa. Ambas investigaciones se han desarrollado en el marco de los proyectos TransParent e Implica.
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Against the Odds? Keeping a Nontraditional Division of Domestic Work After First Parenthood in Spain. Marta Dominguez-Folgueras, Teresa Jurado-Guerrero, and Carmen Botía-Morillas
This article analyzes changes in the division of routine domestic work after first parenthood. We wanted to know whether and how it was possible for couples to resist the trend toward traditionalization that has been shown in the literature. To do so, we analyze semistructured interviews with 27 Spanish couples who were expecting their first child in 2011 and interviewed them again in 2013. The couples were selectedfrom a bigger sample because of their nontraditional practices preparenthood. Our results show that 17 of them were able to maintain a nontraditional division of domestic work, whereas 10 traditionalized. In our analysis, relative resources and time availability did not sufficiently explain the changes in the division of work, but specific characteristics of the division of work before childbirth—men’s active participation, the routinization of tasks, and flexible standards—emerged as key factors to resist the trend toward more traditional arrangements.
If you dare to ask: self-perceived possibilities of Spanish fathers to reduce work hours. Irina Fernández-Lozano
Time scarcity is a reality for most mothers and fathers of young children who work full-time. Though the Spanish law recognizes a specific right to a reduced schedule for care reasons, fathers very rarely make use of this policy. Many of them simply think that, in their current employment circumstances, they ‘can’t’ cut down on work hours. This analysis focuses on the subjective perception that employees have of their difficulty to reduce work hours. Using a nationally representative sample of Spanish employees in charge of young children, and drawing on intersectionality perspectives, we propose that several stratification systems (e.g. gender and economic structure) overlap framing the subjective experience of how easy or difficult it is to adopt a reduced schedule. We confirm that fathers in middle-level service occupations (e.g. clerical workers) may be those most likely to be ‘undoing gender’ at work, as they differ significantly from other fathers in their perception that for them it would be easier to reduce their work hours.