Gender discrimination in Swedish family courts: A quantitative vignette study

Gender discrimination of women is often emphasized in work contexts, whereas less focus is on how men are discriminated against in social relationships. Gender discrimination in decisions of family relations, is essential to study as the contact between parent and child is commonly viewed as the mos...

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Published in:PloS one 2024-08, Vol.19 (8), p.e0296210
Main Authors: Ngaosuvan, Leonard, Hagberg, Jenny, Sikström, Sverker
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Analysis
Annan samhällsvetenskap
Child custody
Child Custody - legislation & jurisprudence
Courts
Custody disputes
Custody of children
Decisions
Demographic aspects
Disputes
Families & family life
Family
Family courts
Family law
Family relations
Fathers
Female
Gender
Gender differences
Gender discrimination
Gender equity
Gender Studies
Genusstudier
Humans
Internal validity
Judges & magistrates
Laws, regulations and rules
Male
Mediation
Medicine and Health Sciences
Middle Aged
Mothers
Other Social Sciences
Parenting - psychology
Parents
Parents & parenting
People and Places
Psychology
Psykologi
Public domain
Samhällsvetenskap
Sex discrimination
Sexism
Single parents
Social aspects
Social interaction
Social interactions
Social Sciences
Social workers
Sociology
Sweden
Violence
Women
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Summary:Gender discrimination of women is often emphasized in work contexts, whereas less focus is on how men are discriminated against in social relationships. Gender discrimination in decisions of family relations, is essential to study as the contact between parent and child is commonly viewed as the most important relationship in people's life, as well as being the most important aspect of our life. Following separations, decisions on custody disputes are made by social workers. The purpose of this paper is to study gender discrimination in such decisions. Participants were instructed to give a recommendation of shared parenting based on a custody case vinjett, where we manipulate the gender of the risk parent. The participants' recommendation of living was mainly dependent on the risk parent's gender, where the mother was considerably more likely to receive shared custody than the father. Professional social workers show selective gender discrimination against fathers in terms of living recommendations.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0296210