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Editors' Introduction: Men, Fathers, and Work-Family Balance
An Exploration across Continents / Isabella Crespi and Elisabetta Ruspini
Part I: Fatherhood and Men's Work-Life Balance: A Theoretical Framework across Continents ; Changing Fatherhood and Fathering across Cultures toward Convergence in Work-Family Balance: Divergent Progress or Stalemate? / Rudy Ray Seward and Michael Rush ; "The Choice Was Made for Us": Stay-at-Home Dads and Relationalities of Work and Care in Canada and the United States / Andrea Doucet ; Institutional Context of Childcare and Fathering Practices in Western and Central-Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland and Germany / Piotr Teisseyre
Part II: Changing Fathers: Work, Children, and Reconciliation Strategies ; Changing Family Models: Emerging New Opportunities for Fathers in Catalonia (Spain)? / Lluís Flaquer, Almudena Moreno Mínguez, and Tomás Cano López ; Which Fathers Are Involved in Caring for Preschool-Age Children in the United Kingdom? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Influence of Work Hours in Employment on Shared Childcare Arrangements in Couple Households / Colette Fagan and Helen Norman ; Reconciling Work and Family among Japanese Fathers with Preschool-Age Children / Tomoko Matsuda, Saori Kamano, Mieko Takahashi, Setsuko Onode, and Kyoko Yoshizumi ; Work-Life Balance and Fathers in Austria? Empirical Evidence at the Company Level / Nadja Bergman and Helene Schiffbänker ; Between Change and Continuity: Fathers and Work-Family Balance in Italy / Maria Letizia Bosoni, Isabella Crespi, and Elisabetta Ruspini
Part III: Fathers' Work-Family Life Balance: Conflicts and Challenges ; Involved Fatherhood: Source of New Gender Conflicts? / Diana Lengersdorf and Michael Meuser ; From "Absent Father" to "Involved Father": Changes in the Model of Fatherhood in Poland and Role of Mothers
"Gatekeepers" / Małgorzata Sikorska ; What Work-Family Conflicts Do Fathers Experience in Sweden and in the United States? / Anna-Lena Almqvist and Gayle Kaufman ; "At the End, the Father Works More and the Mother Stays Home": Polish and Swedish Fathers and (Un)achieved Work-Life Balance / Katarzyna Suwada
Conclusions / Isabella Crespi and Elisabetta Ruspini.
An Exploration across Continents / Isabella Crespi and Elisabetta Ruspini
Part I: Fatherhood and Men's Work-Life Balance: A Theoretical Framework across Continents ; Changing Fatherhood and Fathering across Cultures toward Convergence in Work-Family Balance: Divergent Progress or Stalemate? / Rudy Ray Seward and Michael Rush ; "The Choice Was Made for Us": Stay-at-Home Dads and Relationalities of Work and Care in Canada and the United States / Andrea Doucet ; Institutional Context of Childcare and Fathering Practices in Western and Central-Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland and Germany / Piotr Teisseyre
Part II: Changing Fathers: Work, Children, and Reconciliation Strategies ; Changing Family Models: Emerging New Opportunities for Fathers in Catalonia (Spain)? / Lluís Flaquer, Almudena Moreno Mínguez, and Tomás Cano López ; Which Fathers Are Involved in Caring for Preschool-Age Children in the United Kingdom? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Influence of Work Hours in Employment on Shared Childcare Arrangements in Couple Households / Colette Fagan and Helen Norman ; Reconciling Work and Family among Japanese Fathers with Preschool-Age Children / Tomoko Matsuda, Saori Kamano, Mieko Takahashi, Setsuko Onode, and Kyoko Yoshizumi ; Work-Life Balance and Fathers in Austria? Empirical Evidence at the Company Level / Nadja Bergman and Helene Schiffbänker ; Between Change and Continuity: Fathers and Work-Family Balance in Italy / Maria Letizia Bosoni, Isabella Crespi, and Elisabetta Ruspini
Part III: Fathers' Work-Family Life Balance: Conflicts and Challenges ; Involved Fatherhood: Source of New Gender Conflicts? / Diana Lengersdorf and Michael Meuser ; From "Absent Father" to "Involved Father": Changes in the Model of Fatherhood in Poland and Role of Mothers
"Gatekeepers" / Małgorzata Sikorska ; What Work-Family Conflicts Do Fathers Experience in Sweden and in the United States? / Anna-Lena Almqvist and Gayle Kaufman ; "At the End, the Father Works More and the Mother Stays Home": Polish and Swedish Fathers and (Un)achieved Work-Life Balance / Katarzyna Suwada
Conclusions / Isabella Crespi and Elisabetta Ruspini.