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• Authors: Janouskava K. , Sedlacek L.

Title variants

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THE OTHER MOTHERHOOD

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with the topical issue of families in which mothers do not take parental leave and instead fathers take care of their children. The paper is based on a set of qualitative interviews with five couples. Whereas mothers are perceived routinely as naturally child-rearing person in a couple who give up her labour activity, interviewed women decided to continue working while their partners stay at home and takes care of baby. These women experienced negative reactions of other mothers and society as a whole against them because they prefered their jobs and carriers to the family. Respondents regarded that their role of mother was weakened as well as their feminine identity. However fathers are positively perceived in the society, because they can maintain different social role from traditional breadwinner. As a result, it can cause some difficulties for these women who can experience better opportunities on the labour market but more inequalities in social relations. (http://www.genderonline.cz/view.php?cisloclanku=2005122201)

Keywords

EN

GENDER; PARENTHOOD; REPRODUCTION STRATEGIES

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum (Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research)
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 19-22
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Janouskava K.

author

Sedlacek L.

• L. Sedlacek, Gender Center at Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University in Brno, Jostova 10, Brno 602 00, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06CZAAAA01633561