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A sense of entitlement?: fathers, mothers and organizational support for family and career

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A sense of entitlement? fathers, mothers and organizational support for family and career. / Gatrell, Caroline Jane; Cooper, Cary Lynn.
In: Community, Work and Family, Vol. 19, No. 2, 03.2016, p. 134-147.

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Gatrell CJ, Cooper CL. A sense of entitlement? fathers, mothers and organizational support for family and career. Community, Work and Family. 2016 Mar;19(2):134-147. Epub 2016 Feb 12. doi: 10.1080/13668803.2016.1134121

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abstract = "The influential work of Suzan Lewis has played an important part in shaping understandings of parenting, work-life integration and gendered values and practices in organizations.Below, we offer a brief outline of how Suzan{\textquoteright}s work has influenced the work-life research field. We focus particularly on her observations about career advancement, gender and a sense of entitlement (or otherwise) among employed fathers and mothers.In particular, we build on Lewis{\textquoteright}s (1997) notion of {\textquoteleft}entitlement{\textquoteright} among and between employed parents regarding access to family friendly and/or flexible working and personal career advancement. We extend Lewis{\textquoteright}s ideas through developing a framework which reflects the relative sense of entitlement (or lack thereof) between fathers and mothers in relation, respectively, to {\textquoteleft}support for family needs{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}equity in career development{\textquoteright} (1997:15). We then advance and update this framework through suggesting that a sense of entitlement among today{\textquoteright}s fathers, regarding access to family friendly working, may be undergoing a social shift. Drawing upon Lewis{\textquoteright}s important contribution to the work-life field, the paper thus explores how understandings of fatherhood are changing. We then consider what future research agendas might be.",
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