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Fatherhood and Flexible Working: A Contradiction in Terms?

In: Creating Balance?

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  • Simon Burnett

    (Lancaster University Management School)

  • Caroline Gatrell

    (Lancaster University Management School)

  • Cary Cooper

    (Lancaster University Management School)

  • Paul Sparrow

    (Lancaster University Management School)

Abstract

This chapter derives from a desire to investigate the issues of modern fatherhood in the context of flexible working practices and gender; offering a broad-scale analysis as to the extent to which predominantly Western, employed, white-collar, middle-class fathers are embracing flexibility and under what familial and workplace circumstances. In so doing, we highlight the tensions and correlations between traditional notions of fathers as economic providers who go “out” to work and the emergence of late modern ideas concerning the dynamism between fatherhood and more flexible modes of working. Our focus on the work-life situation of fathers in senior roles is both timely and relevant to the growing body of research on work-life balance and male working patterns, which identifies white-collar fathers as under-researched and insufficiently catered for within policy.

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  • Simon Burnett & Caroline Gatrell & Cary Cooper & Paul Sparrow, 2011. "Fatherhood and Flexible Working: A Contradiction in Terms?," Springer Books, in: Stephan Kaiser & Max Josef Ringlstetter & Doris Ruth Eikhof & Miguel Pina e Cunha (ed.), Creating Balance?, chapter 0, pages 157-171, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-16199-5_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16199-5_9
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    1. Berit Brandth & Elin Kvande, 2016. "Fathers and flexible parental leave," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 30(2), pages 275-290, April.

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