Seminar

Fathers' involvement in family life: changing cross-national differences

Oriel Sullivan (Centre for Time Use Research, University of Oxford)

27 October 2016, h. 10.00
Room 3D233
Department of Cultures, Politics and Society - University of Turin
Campus Luigi Einaudi
Via Lungo Dora Siena, 100
Turin

Discussants Renzo Carriero (University of Turin) and Eugenia Mercuri (SOMET PhD Program)

Abstract 

In this presentation I examine the changing nature of fathers' contributions to family life, focusing particularly on fathers' changing contributions to housework and childcare in different welfare state regimes, and on the changing effect of education on fathers' contributions in low fertility countries. While there is a relatively substantial literature on cross-sectional differences in father's investment between subgroups of the population, and rather less on overall changes over time in fathers' contributions, there is still relatively little research that takes as its focus the way that differences between subgroups change over time. The idea is that by observing such changes we can understand more about the underlying processes of change.

This seminar is part of the Seminar cycle Family, Gender and Sexuality.