What is it about?
Researchers and policy makers wonder how to make men more involved in the domestic and family sphere to reduce gender inequalities. One way is to design family policy instruments, which force men to take longer breakes in their paid work in connection to fatherhood, for example highly paid parental leave for men or so called daddy quota in parental leave scheme. In this article based on qualitative research with Polish and Swedish fathers, it is shown what attitudes fathers have to such instruments.
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Why is it important?
The problem is important, since without making men more engaged in the family sphere it is not possible to achieve actual gender equality. It is not enough to make women more engaged in the public sphere. Women should also be freed from a double burden, which results from labour market obligations and domestic and care tasks.
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In my opinion the article shows that social policy can be a powerful instrument of changing people's views on their roles, organisation of everyday life, as well as their values and beliefs.
Dr Katarzyna Suwada
Nicolaus Copernicus University
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This page is a summary of: “It was Necessary at the Beginning to Make This Whole Revolution”, Men and Masculinities, August 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1097184x17727571.
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