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SUMMARY:Sociology seminar: ‘What Makes Fathers Involved? Exploring the Re
 lationship between Paid Work and Childcare’
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DESCRIPTION:Although fathers’ roles have been adapting over the last thre
 e decades financial provisioning remains the essence of ‘good’ fathering
  and the work schedules associated with fathers’ employment is a key fac
 tor that shapes their involvement in childcare and domestic work. \n\nHo
 wever\, the relative impact of fathers’ and mothers’ employment on pater
 nal involvement in childcare is unclear\, and little is known about the 
 longer term impact\, that is\, whether the way parents’ organise their w
 ork and childcare arrangements in the first year of the child’s life imp
 acts on paternal involvement as the child grows up.\n \nThis seminar inv
 estigates some of the tensions between employment and a father’s involve
 d caregiver role. I open with a review of the qualitative and quantitati
 ve results from previous studies concerning father’s contributions to ch
 ildraising\, including the facilitating influence which statutory parent
 al leave policies and other reconciliation measures have played in some 
 countries. Then I focus on employed couples to explore the association t
 hat mothers’ and fathers’ employment hours have with paternal involvemen
 t when their child is aged three. Multivariate analysis using the UK’s M
 illennium Cohort Study reveals it is the mothers’ employment hours when 
 the child is aged three that has the largest association with paternal i
 nvolvement in childcare at this stage in the child’s life\, independent 
 of what hours the father works. Furthermore\, both parent’s employment h
 ours when the child was nine months old have a longitudinal influence on
  paternal involvement when the child reaches three\, but it is the hours
  a mother works when the child was aged nine months that has the stronge
 r association with paternal involvement at age three. This suggests that
  mothers’ work schedules are more important for fostering paternal invol
 vement in both the immediate and longer term. \n\nThe paper which this p
 resentation is based on is: Norman\, H.\, Elliot\, M. and Fagan\, C. (20
 14) ‘Which fathers are the most involved in taking care of their toddler
 s in the UK? An investigation of the predictors of paternal involvement’
 \, Community\, Work & Family\, 17:2\, 163-180\n\nTea and coffee from 1.4
 5pm.\n
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TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Roscoe 1.009\, Roscoe Building\, Manchester
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