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TY - JOUR
T1 - A sense of entitlement?
T2 - fathers, mothers and organizational support for family and career
AU - Gatrell, Caroline Jane
AU - Cooper, Cary Lynn
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Community, Work and Family on 12/02/2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13668803.2016.1134121
PY - 2016/3
Y1 - 2016/3
N2 - 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’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’s (1997) notion of ‘entitlement’ among and between employed parents regarding access to family friendly and/or flexible working and personal career advancement. We extend Lewis’s ideas through developing a framework which reflects the relative sense of entitlement (or lack thereof) between fathers and mothers in relation, respectively, to ‘support for family needs’ and ‘equity in career development’ (1997:15). We then advance and update this framework through suggesting that a sense of entitlement among today’s fathers, regarding access to family friendly working, may be undergoing a social shift. Drawing upon Lewis’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.
AB - 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’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’s (1997) notion of ‘entitlement’ among and between employed parents regarding access to family friendly and/or flexible working and personal career advancement. We extend Lewis’s ideas through developing a framework which reflects the relative sense of entitlement (or lack thereof) between fathers and mothers in relation, respectively, to ‘support for family needs’ and ‘equity in career development’ (1997:15). We then advance and update this framework through suggesting that a sense of entitlement among today’s fathers, regarding access to family friendly working, may be undergoing a social shift. Drawing upon Lewis’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.
KW - sense of entitlement
KW - work-life integration
KW - fatherhood
U2 - 10.1080/13668803.2016.1134121
DO - 10.1080/13668803.2016.1134121
M3 - Journal article
VL - 19
SP - 134
EP - 147
JO - Community, Work and Family
JF - Community, Work and Family
SN - 1366-8803
IS - 2
ER -