Women as Care Managers: The Effect of Gender and Partnership Status on Grandparent Care for Grandchildren

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23330%2F15%3A43927332" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23330/15:43927332 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://sreview.soc.cas.cz/cs/issue/180-sociologicky-casopis-czech-sociological-review-6-2015/3578" target="_blank" >http://sreview.soc.cas.cz/cs/issue/180-sociologicky-casopis-czech-sociological-review-6-2015/3578</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2015.51.6.224" target="_blank" >10.13060/00380288.2015.51.6.224</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Women as Care Managers: The Effect of Gender and Partnership Status on Grandparent Care for Grandchildren

Original language description

Grandparental care of grandchildren is a highly gendered institution, with women being more likely to participate in it than men. This article studies whether and why care by grandmothers and grandfathers is influenced by their family arrangement. Following previous research, the authors focus on the mediating role of grandmothers in the involvement of men in caring for their grandchildren. We use a combination of quantitative and qualitative data about grandparents with small grandchildren (under ten years of age). The quantitative analysis is based on SHARE data and identifies whether the involvement in care depends on gender and the partnership arrangements of grandparents, controlling for a number of other characteristics of families. The analysisreveals a strong positive impact of the presence of a partner on the engagement of men (but not women) in grandparental care. This effect is present among both intact families and families with more complex arrangements. The qualitative a

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AO - Sociology, demography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GP13-09399P" target="_blank" >GP13-09399P: Practices and meanings of grandparenting in the Czech Republic</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sociologický časopis

ISSN

0038-0288

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

51

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

30

Pages from-to

929-958

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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