‘She has mellowed me into the idea of SPL’: unpacking relational resources in UK couples’ discussions of Shared Parental Leave take-up

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Families Relationships and Societies Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI:10.1332/204674320x15986394583380

K. Twamley

引用次数: 8

Abstract

This article undertakes an in-depth examination into how two couples negotiate the sharing of parental leave, to understand how ‘relational resources’ may be drawn on in transforming gendered practices. The couples are selected from a longitudinal study of 42 first-time parents taking various combinations of leave. Drawing on a ‘listening guide’ approach, I analyse the interactions observed in couple interviews with a couple that shares, and another couple that does not share leave. I show that in trying to convince their partners to take leave, both women draw on gendered scripts, either in how the interaction is managed, or by the discourses that are drawn on. Moreover, fathers’ work context strongly mediates negotiations, as all participants judge this to trump other considerations regarding leave, reinforcing men’s attachment to the workplace. More research is needed to understand how these process shape divisions of paid and unpaid work in the long term.

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“她让我熟悉了SPL的概念”:拆解英国夫妇讨论共同休育儿假时的关系资源

本文深入研究了两对夫妇如何协商共享育儿假，以了解在改变性别做法时如何利用“关系资源”。这对夫妇是从一项对42名首次为人父母的夫妇进行的纵向研究中选出的，他们正在休假。采用“倾听指南”的方法，我分析了在夫妇访谈中观察到的互动，一对夫妇分享，另一对夫妇不分享。我发现，在试图说服伴侣休假的过程中，两位女性都借鉴了性别脚本，无论是在互动的管理方式上，还是在所借鉴的话语中。此外，父亲的工作环境在很大程度上调解了谈判，因为所有参与者都认为这比其他关于休假的考虑更重要，从而增强了男性对工作场所的依恋。需要更多的研究来了解这些过程如何在长期内形成有偿和无偿工作的划分。

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Families Relationships and Societies FAMILY STUDIES-

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2.10

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a vibrant social science journal advancing scholarship and debates in the field of families and relationships. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course. Bringing together a range of social science perspectives, with a strong policy and practice focus, it is also strongly informed by sociological theory and the latest methodological approaches. The title ''Families, Relationships and Societies'' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures. International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from large scale trends, processes of social change and social inequality to the intricacies of family practices. It welcomes scholarship based on theoretical, qualitative or quantitative analysis. High quality research and scholarship is accepted across a wide range of issues. Examples include family policy, changing relationships between personal life, work and employment, shifting meanings of parenting, issues of care and intimacy, the emergence of digital friendship, shifts in transnational sexual relationships, effects of globalising and individualising forces and the expansion of alternative ways of doing family. Encouraging methodological innovation, and seeking to present work on all stages of the life course, the journal welcomes explorations of relationships and families in all their different guises and across different societies.