The Career Concepts of Male Workers with or without Child Cover Image

A gyermekkel rendelkező és a nem gyermekes férfi dolgozók karrier elképzelései
The Career Concepts of Male Workers with or without Child

Author(s): Tímea Juhász, Botond Kálmán, Arnold Tóth
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Debreceni Egyetem Politikatudományi és Szociológiai Intézet
Keywords: male workers with children or without children; career; work and private life reconciliation; gender role; conflict

Summary/Abstract: The question of reconciliation of work and family is getting highlighted in social studies. For along time, a lot of studies concentrated on young mothers; however, researchers have realized that this problem proves difficult to men as well. As Bencsik-Juhász write: ” As the actual labormarket primarily employs and caters for men, with all the inherent ad-vantages (like higher wages for the same job) and disadvantages (like longer working hours), it is no wonder that the stronger labor-market presence and activity of women also changes the traditional family roles”(Bencsik – Juhász 2012: 616). The public opinion has been starting to expect double sets of obligations from the fathers, the traditional family supporter role is still strong, while men arealso expected today to take part in child-rearing. The question is whether these processes effecton men’s career.This study presents career perspectives of male workers with or without child. The authors made a quantitative survey in order to get to know this question. Based on research conducted in 2016, it is possible to say that men with or without child are different in this question.

  • Issue Year: 6/2017
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 91-105
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Hungarian