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Stay-at-home fathers on the wane – In comes daddy day! Changing practices of fathering in German-speaking countries

Schwiter, Karin; Baumgarten, Diana (2017). Stay-at-home fathers on the wane – In comes daddy day! Changing practices of fathering in German-speaking countries. Dialogues in Human Geography, 7(1):83-87.

Abstract

Our commentary brings Boyer et al.’s (2017) argument of a ‘regendering of care’ through men’s growing engagement as caregivers into a dialogue with scholarship from German-speaking countries. This literature supports Boyer et al.’s claim of a connection between labour market opportunities and stay-at-home fatherhood. However, the research from our language context also suggests that fathers who are not gainfully employed do not necessarily become primary caregivers. Furthermore, the number of stay-athome fathers is shrinking rather than growing. In light of these findings, we suggest shifting the discussion from stay-at-home fathers to fathers as part-time workers and part-time carers. This is where we identify the potential for a subtle revolution that bears the promise of far more wide-ranging changes in the gendering of care.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:07 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography
Dewey Decimal Classification:910 Geography & travel
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Geography, Planning and Development
Language:English
Date:2017
Deposited On:05 Apr 2017 09:35
Last Modified:17 Oct 2024 01:35
Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd.
ISSN:2043-8206
OA Status:Green
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820617691634

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