EAN: 9783030663025

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN SOCIOLOGY PARENTING AND WOR...

The open access book provides a critical account of parenthood in Polish society. It uses a
qualitative perspective to show how mothers and fathers engage with parenthood and also
function in the labour market. Parenting in contemporary Poland is not only affected by
individual preferences and choices  but significantly by the institutional context  in
particular the family policy system  as well as socio-cultural norms of how men and women
should fulfill parental roles. The author distinguishes between different kinds of work done in
connection to parenthood and shows how the existing institutional system reinforces gender and
other forms of social inequalities even in a post-communist state like Poland. The author
demonstrates that Polish society has different expectations and institutional norms related to
work and gender norms compared to those in long-standing democracies in Europe and elsewhere.
The book also shows that the experiences of parenthood in Poland are different between men and
women  between single and coupled parents  and based on economic and other resources. This book
is of interest to social science students and researchers of family studies  parenting 
sociology of work  and social structure in post-communist societies.

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