Fatherhood and Employment across the Generations (with Ann Mooney)

Abstract

Feminist researchers have critically analysed the ways in which lifetime, full-time continuous employment and family breadwinning came to characterise paid work as a central source of masculine identity, status and power (Pringle, 1989; Cockburn, 1991; Heward, 1996). From an intergenerational perspective, this still holds true as time is organised and valued differently between fathers and mothers. As Barbara Adam suggests, ‘not all times are equal’ (Adam, 1995: p. 94).