@article{ref1,
title="Stay-at-home fathers on the wane - in comes daddy day! Changing practices of fathering in German-speaking countries",
journal="Dialogues in human geography",
year="2017",
author="Schwiter, Karin and Baumgarten, Diana",
volume="7",
number="1",
pages="83-87",
abstract="Our commentary brings Boyer et al.'s (2017) argument of a 'regendering of care' through men's growing engagement as caregivers into a dialogue with scholarship from German-speaking countries. This literature supports Boyer et al.'s claim of a connection between labour market opportunities and stay-at-home fatherhood. However, the research from our language context also suggests that fathers who are not gainfully employed do not necessarily become primary caregivers. Furthermore, the number of stay-at-home fathers is shrinking rather than growing. In light of these findings, we suggest shifting the discussion from stay-at-home fathers to fathers as part-time workers and part-time carers. This is where we identify the potential for a subtle revolution that bears the promise of far more wide-ranging changes in the gendering of care.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2043-8206",
doi="10.1177/2043820617691634",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2043820617691634"
}