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abstract: 'The article asks whether daycare can alleviate work-family tensions in
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the dual-earner society or if perceptions of `care gaps'' will hamper
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women''s careers. Using survey data from Swedish parents with pre-school
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children (n approximate to 2250) and qualitative interviews of survey
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respondents (n = 40), we explore how children''s daycare hours and
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parents'' reflections on daycare hours are related to mothers'' and
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fathers'' involvement in paid and unpaid work and to their perceptions of
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stress. The results show that parents have a strong ambition to limit
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daycare hours. This ambition provides a stressful dilemma for mothers
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but for fathers, daycare is not a source of stress. Maternal part-time
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work is an important tool for managing daycare hours, but collides with
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ideals of gender equality. Full-time work can be combined with short
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daycare hours, provided that the parents take shifts in the home and
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share care responsibilities. Sharing of care work also reduces mothers''
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stress. However, such arrangements require flexible schedules which are
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more available to parents in high-skill jobs. Single parents have little
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opportunity to keep daycare hours short.'
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affiliation: 'Gronlund, A (Corresponding Author), Umea Univ, Dept Social Work, Umea,
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Sweden.
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Gronlund, Anne, Umea Univ, Dept Social Work, Umea, Sweden.
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Oun, Ida, Umea Univ, Dept Sociol, Umea, Sweden.'
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author: Gronlund, Anne and Oun, Ida
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author-email: anne.gronlund@umu.se
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author_list:
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- family: Gronlund
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given: Anne
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- family: Oun
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given: Ida
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.1007/s11205-020-02366-z
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earlyaccessdate: MAY 2020
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eissn: 1573-0921
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files: []
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issn: 0303-8300
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journal: SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH
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keywords: 'Daycare; Gender; Part-time; Parenthood; Family policy; Flexible
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schedules'
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keywords-plus: 'CONFLICT; POLICY; FATHERS; OPPORTUNITIES; INEQUALITY; MOTHERS; SWEDEN;
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MODEL; LABOR'
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language: English
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month: AUG
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number: '1'
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number-of-cited-references: '49'
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orcid-numbers: 'Gronlund, Anne/0000-0002-7680-334X
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Oun, Ida/0000-0002-8414-8381'
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pages: 259-280
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papis_id: 30d817ea22d9e00b581c82c917e03c36
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ref: Gronlund2020mindingcare
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times-cited: '3'
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title: 'Minding the Care Gap: Daycare Usage and the Negotiation of Work, Family and
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Gender Among Swedish Parents'
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2023-10-01 08:15:07 +00:00
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type: article
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2023-09-28 14:46:10 +00:00
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unique-id: WOS:000535209900002
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usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
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usage-count-since-2013: '11'
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volume: '151'
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web-of-science-categories: Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary; Sociology
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year: '2020'
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