TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grunow,Daniela
AU  - Evertsson,Marie
TI  - Couples' transitions to parenthood: analysing gender and work in Europe 
SN  - 9781785365997
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cheltenham, UK
PB  - Edward Elgar Publishing
KW  - Rol de pares
KW  - Diferències entre sexes
KW  - Europa
KW  - lemac
KW  - Aspectes econòmics
KW  - Pares
KW  - Treball
KW  - Serveis socials
KW  - POPIN
KW  - FAMILIA
KW  - FAMILY
KW  - PADRES
KW  - FATHERS
KW  - GÉNERO
KW  - GENDER
KW  - PATERNIDAD
KW  - PARENTHOOD
KW  - popin
KW  - TRABAJO
KW  - LABOUR
KW  - EUROPA
KW  - EUROPE
N1  - Inclou referències bibliogràfiques i índex
N2  - It is common for European couples living fairly egalitarian lives to adopt a traditional division of labour at the transition to parenthood. Based on in-depth interviews with 334 parents-to-be in eight European countries, this book explores the implications of family policies and gender culture from the perspective of couples who are expecting their first child. Couples' Transitions to Parenthood: Analysing Gender and Work in Europe is the first comparative, qualitative study that explicitly locates couples' parenting ideals and plans in the wider context of national institutions. This unique analysis of transitions to parenthood in contemporary Europe focuses on Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic and Poland. It explores how parents' agency varies along with policy-culture gaps in their countries and provides evidence of their struggle to adapt to, or resist, socially desired paths and patterns of change. In fact, the ways in which institutional structures limit possible choices and beliefs about motherhood and fatherhood are linked in ways that often go unnoticed by social scientists, policymakers and parents themselves. This cutting-edge book will be of interest to social scientists, political scientists, journalists and policymakers. Parents-to-be will also find value in this analysis of gender in parenthood
ER  -