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Title: Parenthood and Leisure Time Disparities
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Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: A Google search on "time-crunched parents" returns about 129,000 results, with headlines with titles like "30 Life Tips for Time-Crunched Parents," "Meal Planning Tips for Time-Crunched Parents" and books named Pressured Parents, Stressed-Out Kids.1 The conventional narrative about parents today presents them as desperately juggling the competing responsibilities of work and family while letting go any time for themselves. Seismic changes in families since the 1960s, particularly the increase in single parent and dual-earner couples, have led to more similar work and family roles for mothers and fathers (Bianchi 2011). Cultural support for shared earning and caring is high, particularly among young adults (Gerson 2010). Although on average, women continue to do more housework and child care than men, and men more paid work than women, prior to parentÂhood, the gender division of labor is relatively equal (Sayer 2016). Transitions into parenthood, however, move couples toward more gendered roles, with mothers decreasing paid work and increasing housework and child care, and fathers doing the opposite (Grunow, Schulz, and Blossfeld 2012, & Stone 2007). Parenting is a profoundly gendered and gendering experience. The "genderÂing" of parenting is based on cultural beliefs that parental roles are gender specialized: mothering involves tasks and characteristics that society frames as uniquely feminine-like nurturing, good communication, and family devotion-whereas fathering is thought to involve tasks and characteristics...
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Authors: Sayer, Liana
Editors: Janning, MIchelle
Pages: 169-188
Volume Title: Contemporary Parenting and Parenthood: From News Headlines to New Research
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
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Data Collections: IPUMS Time Use - ATUS
Topics: Family and Marriage
Countries: United States