She has mellowed me into the idea of SPL’
Unpacking relational resources in UK couples’ discussions of Shared Parental Leave take-up
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13009677 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katherine Twamley (0000-0001-8701-7427, University College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-82 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Families Relationships and Societies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2046-7435 • E-ISSN: 2046-7443 |
| Publisher | Policy Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1332/204674320x15986394583380 |
| OpenAlex | W3088338579 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article undertakes an in-depth examination into how two couples negotiate the sharing of parental leave, to understand how ‘relational resources’ may be drawn on in transforming gendered practices. The couples are selected from a longitudinal study of 42 first-time parents taking various combinations of leave. Drawing on a ‘listening guide’ approach, I analyse the interactions observed in couple interviews with a couple that shares, and another couple that does not share leave. I show that in trying to convince their partners to take leave, both women draw on gendered scripts, either in how the interaction is managed, or by the discourses that are drawn on. Moreover, fathers’ work context strongly mediates negotiations, as all participants judge this to trump other considerations regarding leave, reinforcing men’s attachment to the workplace. More research is needed to understand how these process shape divisions of paid and unpaid work in the long term
Active listening · Context (archaeology · Negotiation · Parental leave · Sociology · Unpacking · Work (physics · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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Work-family decision-making processes at the transition to parenthood
Glimpses of change? UK fathers navigating work and care within the context of Shared Parental Leave
Swings and merry go rounds
What and How are we Measuring When we Research Gendered Divisions of Domestic Labor? Remaking the Household Portrait Method into a Care/Work Portrait
Understanding 'Gender Equality
It's a Man's Job
Paid Parental Leave in Correlation with Changing Gender Role Attitudes
Caregiving fathers and the negotiation of crossroads
The price of love
Balancing the Scales
Little children are not for dad's?’ Challenging and undoing hegemonic masculinity
Gender, Work and Organization in 2018
Decision‐Making Factors within Paternity and Parental Leaves
Meeting at the Crossroads
Against all odds
Shared Parental Leave
Money and relationships online
Parental constructions of masculinity at the transition to parenthood
Relational Resources, Gender Consciousness and Possibilities of Change in Marital Relationships
Cold intimacies' in parents' negotiations of work-family practices and parental leave
The Effects of Husbands' and Wives' Social Cognition on Their Marital Adjustment, Conjugal Power, and Self-Esteem
Scripting Civil Partnerships
What can be known and how? Narrated subjects and the Listening Guide
Falling back into Gender? Men's Narratives and Practices around First-time Fatherhood
Reflexive Accounts and Accounts of Reflexivity in Qualitative Data Analysis
The influence of partners on fathers' decision-making about parental leave in Italy
Paternity Leave and the Motherhood Penalty
Parental Responsibilities
Parents' Workplace Situation and Fathers' Parental Leave Use
Barriers to equality
Work, parenting and gender
Dynamics of parental leave in Anglophone countries
Parental Leave and Domestic Work of Mothers and Fathers
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |