The other glass ceiling: Fathers stepping up, mothers letting goThe other glass ceiling offers an insightful male perspective to a debate on the lack of work-family balance in modern day families. Based on research and full of entertaining anecdotes, this book challenges the predominant gender roles that expect a mother to care for her family and doubt her commitment to a career, while at the same time requiring a father to provide for his family financially and doubting his ability to look after his own children. This is the other glass ceiling - the one reflected in gender inequity in the family home and preventing equality in parenting. The other glass ceiling is perpetuated by both genders equally, and the solution requires compromises from both sides. Charles Areni and Stephen Holden encourage dads to 'step up', to take on a bigger share of the burden of home duties. They encourage mums to 'let go', to let dad get involved in child-rearing, and to bring to the task his own skills and approaches. Breaking through this other glass ceiling will be good for mum, good for dad - oh, and good for the children too! |
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... spend half their time with their mothers , the other half with their respective fathers . Between us , we have many ex - partners , one ex - wife , one current wife , and one step - child . Since separating from the mothers of our ...
... spent their weeks doing more or less the same things. When I compared mar- ried men and women with no children ... spend more time on the job and rely on professional childcare services more extensively than married mothers do ...
... spends some of his time with Terry and some with his other parent. Today, three police-officers and two child-safety officers have just arrived unannounced at Terry's home. The child-safety officers indicate that specific allegations ...
... spend a lot more time with mum than dad . In ' Weekend warriors ' you'll find out how single dads compensate for this lack of time in order to maintain strong bonds with their children . Surprisingly , married fathers may actually spend ...
Fathers stepping up, mothers letting go Charles S Areni , Stephen S Holden. spend a lot of time with their dads . No matter how hard mothers work at being great parents , they simply cannot provide the comple- mentary sets of skills that ...