Fatherhood and Men’s Involvement in Paid Work in Australia
Fatherhood and Men’s Involvement in Paid Work in Australia
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澳大利亚的父亲身份和男性参与有偿工作
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2013
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Edith Gray
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Edith Gray
成为父母是生命历程中的一个重要转变，但大多数研究并没有考虑成为父亲如何改变男性的生活。本章重点讨论生活事件是否影响澳大利亚男性参与有偿工作。人们最感兴趣的是成为父亲是否会改变男性的就业时间，但考虑的其他事件包括生下更多孩子、结婚、完成教育、改变主管或经理身份以及购买房屋。大多数考虑父亲和非父亲之间差异的研究都是横向的，通常发现父亲比非父亲男性在工作上花费的时间更长。然而，由于与工作时间和成为父亲的可能性相关的不可观察特征的潜在影响，之前的研究是有限的。使用来自“谈判生命历程”项目的四波数据，使用解释不可观察特征的方法来检查男性在成为父亲之前和之后的就业时间的变化。研究结果表明，成为父亲会增加男性的就业时间。工作时间的增加可以用“时间分配”理论或男性“做性别”的过程来解释。工作时间的增加也会对父亲参与养育子女的程度产生潜在影响。
Becoming a parent is an important transition in the life course, yet most research does not consider how becoming a father changes men’s lives. This chapter focuses on whether life events affect involvement in paid work for Australian men. Of central interest is whether becoming a father changes the hours men spend in employment, but other events that are considered include having additional children, getting married, completing education, changing supervisor or manager status, and buying a home. Most research that considers differences between fathers and non-fathers is cross-sectional and typically finds that fathers spend longer hours in employment than men who are not fathers. However, previous research is limited due to the potential effects of unobservable characteristics that are associated with both employment hours and the likelihood of becoming a father. Using four waves of data from the Negotiating the Life Course project, changes in men’s employment hours prior to and after the transition to fatherhood are examined using methods which account for unobservable characteristics. The findings demonstrate that there is an effect of becoming a father that increases employment hours for men. This increase in hours could be explained by ‘time-allocation’ theories, or by the process of men ‘doing gender’. There are also potential effects on father’s level of involvement in parenting as a result of increased employment hours.