Work, parenting and gender: the care-work negotiations of three couple relationships in the UK

Changes globally mean that there are now record numbers of mothers in paid employment and a reported prevalence of involved fathering. This poses challenges to mothers and fathers as they negotiate care-work practices within their relationships. Focusing on interviews with three heterosexual couples...

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Published in:Community, work & family work & family, 2016-05, Vol.19 (3), p.362-377
Main Authors: Yarwood, Gemma Anne, Locke, Abigail
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Caregivers
Childrearing practices
Couples
cualitativa
Discourses
discursive psychology
Employment
Fathering
Gender
género
Heterosexuality
Negotiation
parenting
Parents & parenting
paternidad
Power
psicología discursiva
qualitative
Talking
trabaja
Work
Working mothers
Working parents
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Childrearing practices
Couples
cualitativa
Discourses
discursive psychology
Employment
Fathering
Gender
género
Heterosexuality
Negotiation
parenting
Parents & parenting
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Power
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Talking
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Working mothers
Working parents
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