{"id":906,"date":"2016-12-14T09:36:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T15:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/?p=906"},"modified":"2016-12-14T09:36:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T15:36:32","slug":"revisit-remember-the-ladies-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/2016\/12\/14\/revisit-remember-the-ladies-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisit: Remember the Ladies<\/del> Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over at\u00a0Families as They Really Are<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0Erin Anderson has posted about\u00a0men\u2019s lagging uptake<\/a>\u00a0of family leave when it is available. Over here, we have prepared a round-up on how men are doing in families by looking back at papers from the Council on Contemporary Families.<\/p>\n

An issue related to use (or not) of family leave has to do with the underlying security of jobs: In the CCF June 2013\u00a0Symposium on the Equal Pay Act<\/a>, economist Heidi Shierholz wrote about\u00a0the erosion of men\u2019s wages in the past few decades<\/em>. She explains, \u201cIn the late 1970s, after a long period of holding fairly steady, the gap in wages between men and women began improving. In 1979, the median hourly wage for women was 62.7 percent of the median hourly wage for men; by 2012, it was 82.8 percent. However, a big chunk of that improvement\u2014more than a quarter of it\u2014happened because of men\u2019s wage\u00a0losses<\/em>, rather than women\u2019s wage gains.\u201d Read\u00a0more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some models show how to change men\u2019s behavior.\u00a0Anita Patnaik wrote this spring about Quebec\u2019s non transferrable leave program and the positive results. In particular,\u00a0the study demonstrates just how effective this generous benefit is in getting fathers more involved at home.\u00a0<\/em>With new benefits, fathers increased their participation in parental leave by 250 percent. In households where men were given the opportunity to use this benefit, fathers\u2019 daily time in household work was 23 percent higher, long after the leave period ended. Background and details of economist Ankita Patnaik\u2019s innovative study are provided in\u00a0this briefing report<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Men\u2019s engagement is looking pretty good, too, to several international scholars.Oriel Sullivan and colleagues compare national patterns in gender equity and housework, and note in their\u00a02015 CCF brief<\/a>, that\u00a0the trend of men\u2019s engagement with family is fundamentally forward and upward. \u201c<\/em>We argue that like most momentous historical trends, we shouldn\u2019t expect progress towards gender equality to happen in an uninterrupted way. Just as we still see cold snaps within a process of longer-term climatic warming, the progress of gender equality should be seen as a long-term, uneven process, rather than as a single, all-at-once revolution.\u201d You can read\u00a0more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arielle Kuperberg, also writing in a\u00a02015 CCF brief<\/a>, highlights good news about men in families more recently, too.\u00a0In a report on cohabitation trends and best methods for studying those trends, she finds that\u00a0marriage doesn\u2019t have the kind of traditionalizing impact on participants than it has in the past<\/em>. In reviewing some of the 21st\u00a0century data (versus data from the 1990s), she noted, \u201cBy 2001-3, however, men who had lived together before marriage and men who were living together without marriage and thought they would marry their partner were doing the same amount and the same\u00a0type<\/em>\u00a0of housework. This suggests that marriage had ceased to have any effect in making men feel that they ought to play more traditional roles, or can opt out of less traditional ones.\u201d She notes, however, that when children arrive, some of this ground is lost. Read\u00a0her report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Originally posted 9\/30\/15<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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  Screenshot courtesy Letta Page Over at\u00a0Families as They Really Are,\u00a0Erin Anderson has posted about\u00a0men\u2019s lagging uptake\u00a0of family leave when it is available. Over here, we have prepared a round-up on how men are doing in families by looking back at papers from the Council on Contemporary Families. An issue related to use (or not) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13248,38596,3849,19486,76],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cohabitation","tag-family-leave","tag-gender-equality","tag-wages","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}