Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 5 · Licensed source edition
Fathers’ perceptions of factors associated with the attainment of paternity leave: a qualitative study
Originally published 2025-01-28 · Frontiers in Global Women's Health
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fgwh.2024.1466227 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Explores how career aspirations, schedules, colleagues and family needs combine in fathers’ leave decisions, bringing the employer and parent perspectives together.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Collaboration
What needs to be coordinated so that a father can actually take leave?
Explores how career aspirations, schedules, colleagues and family needs combine in fathers’ leave decisions, bringing the employer and parent perspectives together.
Study context
21 fathers and four company supervisors interviewed about taking paternity leave.
Age / stage: Adult fathers of infants and employer representatives.
Read with three questions
- Which barriers and supports did fathers identify at different social levels?
- How did supervisors’ organizational concerns differ from fathers’ accounts?
- What could a team plan solve without asking a father to negotiate every barrier privately?
Keep the limits in view
Interview accounts identify perceived mechanisms rather than their prevalence or causal importance; supervisors and fathers were not a representative sample of all employers.
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Naoyuki Mita; Yu Par Khin; Nobutoshi Nawa; Yui Yamaoka; Takeo Fujiwara (2025). Fathers’ perceptions of factors associated with the attainment of paternity leave: a qualitative study Frontiers in Global Women's Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2024.1466227
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