Masculinity in flux? Male managers navigating between work and family

Raminta Pučėtaitė, Anna-Maija Lämsä and Marija Norvaišaitė

Journal of Baltic Studies, 2020, vol. 51, issue 2, 179-198

Abstract: The article sheds light on male managers’ experience as fathers in a post-Soviet context in Lithuania. This empirical study of 12 male managers’ experiences of work-family integration (WFI), their ways of coping with negative experiences, and the role of organizations in reducing conflict and enriching WFI, reveal the emergence of a new paternal identity: fathers who perceive their role as caregivers but for whom this is still subordinate to the dominant role of the breadwinner. Relying on their wife is a man’s dominant coping strategy. Organizations are perceived as family unfriendly. The managerial implications of the need for organizational support are discussed.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2020.1746369

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