1. Objectifs

Intentions :
In this article, the author « [...] address[es] the tenuous links between fatherhood and the responsibility for children with a focus on how embodiment can matter in the first year and what this might mean for policy and programs aimed at achieving fathering involvement or gender equality in parenting. » (p. 80)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
Trois études qualitatives ont été menées auprès de 200 pères et 40 mères : « [t]he first was a study of fathers who are primary caregivers (single fathers and/or stay-at-home fathers) conducted mainly in Ontario but with some representation across Canada (see Doucet 2006a). It included in-depth interviews with more than one hundred fathers and with fourteen heterosexual couples. The second study is a qualitative research study with twenty-six couples (sixteen from Ontario and ten from Québec) where the father has taken some parental leave. Finally, the third study is on transitions to new fatherhood for a diverse sample of fathers carried out mainly in Ontario but with some participation for fathers representing diverse regions of Canada; in this last study, focus groups were conducted with fifty fathers and in-depth interviews with twenty fathers. » (p. 81)

Instruments:
Guide d’entretien semi-directif

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse de contenu

3. Résumé

« This article addresses the question of why there are persistent gender differences in the responsibility for children. It argues that understanding continuing gender divisions of domestic responsibility, particularly in the first year of parenting, requires attending to issues of identity; commitment; embodiment; deeply rooted socialization or habitus; and normative community assumptions around gender, breadwinning, and caring. Rooted in three qualitative research studies conducted over the past eight years with more than two hundred Canadian fathers and forty mothers, the author argues for renewed thinking around issues of gender equality and gender differences and how these play out in domestic and community spaces in that first year of parenting. Bridging together time, space, and embodiment, the author also maintains that short-term potential differences in domestic responsibilities in parenting should not necessarily lead to long-term chronic inequities between women and men. » (p. 78)