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Evertsson, M., Boye, K. & Erman, J. (2015). Fathers on call: a study on the sharing of care work among parents in Sweden. A mixed methods approach. FamiliesAndSocieties Management Team, SU
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Fathers on call: a study on the sharing of care work among parents in Sweden. A mixed methods approach
2015 (English)Report (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

By combining quantitative analyses of survey data with qualitative analyses of interviewswith first-time parents, this study gives new insights into parents’ division of parental leavein Sweden and the links between fathers’ leave length and the division of child care whenboth are back at work again. Quantitative results show that mothers’ and fathers’ parentalleave lengths vary substantially with the reasons for division of leave and that fathers’parental leave length is related to the long-term division of child care as well as to mothers’satisfaction with it. Qualitative results suggest that although gender equality and equalparenting is central to the first-time, middle-class parents that were interviewed, moretraditional norms and ideals about the mother as the primary caretaker may stand in the wayof an equal sharing of the leave during the child’s first year. The study also suggests severalmechanisms through which fathers’ parental leave may causally influence later division ofchildcare, including a development of a closer relationship between the father and the childand a greater understanding between the parents.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
FamiliesAndSocieties Management Team, SU, 2015
Series
Families And Societies Working Paper Series ; 27
Keywords
Parenting, gender, child care, parental leave, division of work
National Category
Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Research subject
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-42939 (URN)
Funder
EU, FP7, Seventh Framework Programme, 320116
Available from: 2015-02-25 Created: 2015-02-25 Last updated: 2017-10-17Bibliographically approved
Boye, K. (2014). Can you stay at home today?: the relationship between economic dependence, parents' occupation and care leave for sick children. Uppsala: IFAU
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Can you stay at home today?: the relationship between economic dependence, parents' occupation and care leave for sick children
2014 (English)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This is one of only a few studies on the division of care leave for sick children between parents in Sweden and the first to attempt to examine the importance of differences in parents’ work characteristics. The study uses register data for parents with children born in 1999-2002 to analyse two aspects of working life that may influence how parents divide care leave between them: The parents’ relative wagesand differences in their occupations. First, the results show that a father’s share of care leave increases as the mother’s economic dependence decreases. This suggests that decisions about care leave are influenced by bargaining power gained through relative economic resources. Second, the resources of couples where both partners work in the same occupation are more equal than the resources of other couples. Their wages are more similar, and they also divide care leave more equally than couples where the partners work in different occupations. However, the fact that couples who work in the same occupation tend to share more equally does not seem to be explained by similarities in the partners’ work characteristics or by relatively low economic dependenceof women, but instead may be explained by unmeasured, stable characteristics. Gender egalitarianism and greater possibilities for women in terms of career and wages are put forward as possible characteristics for couples working inthe same occupation that may influence the way they divide care leave.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: IFAU, 2014. p. 38
Series
IFAU Working Paper, ISSN 1651-1166 ; 2014:4
Keywords
Care leave for sick children, temporary parental leave, gender division of work, relative resources, economic dependence, occupat ions
National Category
Sociology
Research subject
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-42192 (URN)
Available from: 2014-03-17 Created: 2015-01-22 Last updated: 2023-04-26Bibliographically approved
Boye, K. (2014). Dual-Earner Couples/Dual-Career Couples. In: Axel C. Michalos (Ed.), Encyclopedia of quality of life and well-being research: (pp. 1703-1706). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Dual-Earner Couples/Dual-Career Couples
2014 (English)In: Encyclopedia of quality of life and well-being research / [ed] Axel C. Michalos, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands , 2014, p. 1703-1706Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014
National Category
Sociology
Research subject
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-42194 (URN)10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_784 (DOI)9789400707528 (ISBN)9789400707535 (ISBN)
Available from: 2015-01-19 Created: 2015-01-22 Last updated: 2021-03-01Bibliographically approved
Boye, K. (2014). Hushållsarbetets tid och fördelning. In: Katarina Boye och Magnus Nermo (Ed.), Lönsamt arbete: familjeansvarets fördelning och konsekvenser (pp. 95-129). Stockholm: Fritzes
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Hushållsarbetets tid och fördelning
2014 (Swedish)In: Lönsamt arbete: familjeansvarets fördelning och konsekvenser / [ed] Katarina Boye och Magnus Nermo, Stockholm: Fritzes, 2014, p. 95-129Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Fritzes, 2014
Series
Statens offentliga utredningar (SOU), ISSN 0375-250X ; 2014:28
National Category
Sociology
Research subject
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-42193 (URN)9789138241080 (ISBN)
Available from: 2014-11-26 Created: 2015-01-22 Last updated: 2024-11-07Bibliographically approved
Boye, K., Halldén, K. & Magnusson, C. (2014). Könslönegapets utveckling: betydelsen av yrkets kvalifikationsnivå och familjeansvar. In: Marie Evertsson & Charlotta Magnusson (Ed.), Ojämlikhetens dimensioner: uppväxtvillkor, arbete och hälsa i Sverige (pp. 185-211). Stockholm: Liber
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Könslönegapets utveckling: betydelsen av yrkets kvalifikationsnivå och familjeansvar
2014 (Swedish)In: Ojämlikhetens dimensioner: uppväxtvillkor, arbete och hälsa i Sverige / [ed] Marie Evertsson & Charlotta Magnusson, Stockholm: Liber , 2014, p. 185-211Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Liber, 2014
National Category
Sociology
Research subject
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-42196 (URN)978-91-47-11129-9 (ISBN)
Available from: 2014-02-18 Created: 2015-01-22 Last updated: 2019-03-25Bibliographically approved
Boye, K. & Nermo, M. (Eds.). (2014). Lönsamt arbete: familjeansvarets fördelning och konsekvenser. Stockholm: Fritzes
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Lönsamt arbete: familjeansvarets fördelning och konsekvenser
2014 (Swedish)Collection (editor) (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Fritzes, 2014. p. 281
Series
Statens offentliga utredningar (SOU), ISSN 0375-250X ; 2014:28
National Category
Sociology
Research subject
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-42197 (URN)9789138241080 (ISBN)
Available from: 2014-11-26 Created: 2015-01-22 Last updated: 2024-11-07Bibliographically approved
Boye, K. (2014). Mot ett nytt föräldraskap. In: Anne Grönlund (Ed.), Glimtar av jämställdhet: . Umeå: Boréa bokförlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Mot ett nytt föräldraskap
2014 (Swedish)In: Glimtar av jämställdhet / [ed] Anne Grönlund, Umeå: Boréa bokförlag , 2014Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Umeå: Boréa bokförlag, 2014
National Category
Sociology
Research subject
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-42191 (URN)9789189140868 (ISBN)
Available from: 2014-04-04 Created: 2015-01-22 Last updated: 2017-10-17Bibliographically approved
Boye, K. & Evertsson, M. (2014). Vem gör vad när?: kvinnors och mäns tid i betalt och obetalt arbete. In: Marie Evertsson & Charlotta Magnusson (Ed.), Ojämlikhetens dimensioner: uppväxtvillkor, arbete och hälsa i Sverige (pp. 158-184). Stockholm: Liber
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Vem gör vad när?: kvinnors och mäns tid i betalt och obetalt arbete
2014 (Swedish)In: Ojämlikhetens dimensioner: uppväxtvillkor, arbete och hälsa i Sverige / [ed] Marie Evertsson & Charlotta Magnusson, Stockholm: Liber , 2014, p. 158-184Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Liber, 2014
National Category
Sociology
Research subject
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-42195 (URN)978-91-47-11129-9 (ISBN)
Available from: 2014-02-18 Created: 2015-01-22 Last updated: 2018-04-11Bibliographically approved
Evertsson, M. & Boye, K. (2013). Jämställdhet i hemmet: så fördelar unga vuxna hushålls- och omsorgsarbetet. In: Fokus 13: Unga och jämställdhet (pp. 146-166). Stockholm: Norstedts Juridik AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Jämställdhet i hemmet: så fördelar unga vuxna hushålls- och omsorgsarbetet
2013 (Swedish)In: Fokus 13: Unga och jämställdhet, Stockholm: Norstedts Juridik AB, 2013, p. 146-166Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

I Fokus13 beskriver Ungdomsstyrelsen jämställdhetssituationen för unga inom områdena utbildning och lärande, arbete och försörjning, hälsa och utsatthet, inflytande och representation samt kultur och fritid. Rapporten utgår från två stora enkätundersökningar, intervjuer med unga och en genomgång av tidigare studier. Man beskriver också förändringsarbete, med exempel på verksamheter som arbetar för ökad jämställdhet. Utifrån analysen ger Ungdomsstyrelsen förslag på hur arbetet kan utvecklas ytterligare framöver. Fokus13 är Ungdomsstyrelsens nionde tematiska analys inom ungdomspolitiken.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Norstedts Juridik AB, 2013
Series
Ungdomsstyrelsens skrifter, ISSN 1651-2855 ; 2013:4
National Category
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-43278 (URN)9789185933730 (ISBN)
Available from: 2014-01-05 Created: 2015-03-04 Last updated: 2017-10-17Bibliographically approved
Alsarve [Ahlberg], J. & Boye, K. (2012). Inte bara jämställdhet. In: : . Paper presented at Sociologidagarna, Stockholms universitet 15-17 mars 2012.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Inte bara jämställdhet
2012 (Swedish)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
National Category
Sociology
Research subject
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-33846 (URN)
Conference
Sociologidagarna, Stockholms universitet 15-17 mars 2012
Available from: 2014-02-20 Created: 2014-02-20 Last updated: 2022-02-11Bibliographically approved
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