French Fathers in Work Organizations: Navigating Work-Life Balance Challenges

Sabrina Tanquerel ()
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Sabrina Tanquerel: Métis Lab EM Normandie - EM Normandie - École de Management de Normandie = EM Normandie Business School

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Abstract: This chapter aims at contributing to a better understanding of the challenges and tensions that French working fathers experience at work in trying to achieve work-life balance. Drawing on a sample of 20 fathers, aged 27–51, working in different work organizations, in-depth interviews were conducted to investigate how these fathers navigate tensions between the simultaneous pressure for having a successful career and for embodying an involved fatherhood. The findings show that the fathers' perceptions and expectations towards work-life balance are different from women, fathers often associating their needs for work-life balance with occasional and informal flexibility and not always viewing the organization as a source of solutions. Heterogeneously influenced by their cultural ideals of work and fatherhood, they expect now more proactivity, recognition and support on the part of their organization and supervisor to fully carry out their fatherhood. A typology of three profiles with different ways of combining fatherhood and work is derived: the ‘breadwinner' father, the ‘caring father' and the ‘want to have it all' father. These categories are further developed highlighting the practices and strategies French fathers mobilize to solve their work-life equation.

Date: 2022-09-08
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Published in Grau Grau, M., las Heras Maestro, M., Riley Bowles, H. (eds). Engaged Fatherhood for Men, Families and Gender Equality, Springer International Publishing, pp.213-229, 2022, Contributions to Management Science, 978-3-030-75645-1. ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-75645-1_12⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-75645-1_12

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