What is it about?
The paper explores how European welfare states responded to the decline of patriarchal fatherhood and male bread-winning, and to what extent (if at all) organised feminism impacts the development of parental leave policies and 'daddy month' campaigns to promote fathers’ use of leave
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Why is it important?
It is important because nowadays children grow up in 'parental leave rich' or 'parental leave poor' countries and fathers are expected to support mothers' careers by being an equal in the home. Parental leave and maternity leave are important forms of de-commodification for working parents that allow them to exit labor markets temporarily to raise infants post-partum. The expansion of social insurance based parental leave programs and child care services run counter to neo-liberal agendas and the idea of "post-patriarchal" gender egalitarian work-life balance arrangements is trending in Europe.
Perspectives
This Special Issue of Men and Masculinities includes articles by top feminist academics writing about patriarchy, fatherhood and the gender relations of parenting and work-life balance arrangements. What began as a symposium in Vienna University ended up as a fully fledged Journal special issue. I was delighted to be the editor of this edition.
Michael Rush
University College Dublin UCD
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This page is a summary of: Introduction to Special Issue, Men and Masculinities, November 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1097184x17740810.
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