The Impact of Taking Parental Leave on Fathers’ Participation In Childcare And Relationships With Children: Lessons from Sweden

In Sweden, government-mandated paid parental leave has been available to both mothers and fathers since 1974. By 2006, each parent had two non-transferable leave months and nine additional months to share. From the beginning, parental leave was presented as a policy designed to promote gender equality, with women and men having equal opportunities and responsibilities to contribute economically to the family and care for children. Sweden thus provides a unique setting to explore whether social policy can be an important instrument for changing the gender contract. Analysing survey data from 356 fathers working in large private companies, we found that the amount of parental leave days taken had positive effects on several aspects of fathers’ participation in childcare and on their satisfaction with contact with children, controlling for other factors contributing to fathers’ participation in childcare. Our findings suggest that the full potential of Sweden's parental leave policy for degendering the division of labour for childcare will not likely be met until fathers are strongly encouraged by social policy to take a more equal portion of parental leave.     

THE PARTICIPATION DIVIDE: Content creation and sharing in the digital age

This paper looks at the prevalence of creative activity and sharing in an age when the barriers to disseminating material have been considerably lowered compared with earlier times. The authors use unique data to explore the extent to which young adults create video, music, writing and artistic photography, as well as the prevalence of sharing such material online. Findings suggest that despite new opportunities to engage in such distribution of content, relatively few people are taking advantage of these recent developments. Moreover, neither creation nor sharing is randomly distributed among a diverse group of young adults. Consistent with existing literature, creative activity is related to a person's socioeconomic status as measured by parental schooling. The novel act of sharing online, however, is considerably different by gender with men much more likely to engage in it. However, once internet user skill is controlled for, men and women are equally likely to post their materials on the Web.     

社会性别:女性主义文学的基点

女性主义文学的内涵及其特点都是基于社会性别 ,从长远的斗争目标来看 ,女权主义要用“关怀”代替“平等”这个口号 ,并在此基础上 ,形成一种新的“女性写作”。     

学校与课堂中的性别公平问题

本文分析了社会对不同性别儿童的角色期待以及学校与课堂中存在的性别刻板印象,揭示了学校与课堂中的性别不公平问题对学生社会化发展及教育公平的深刻影响,并提出了落实性别公平与平等教育的三个层面的策略。     

张孝祥的禅宗思想及禅学渊源

张孝祥的思想颇多禅宗随缘妙悟的成分。其禅学思想主要来自于两个方面：一是宋代浓厚的的禅学氛围和禅宗学说；二是张孝祥家族笃信佛教的传统。张孝祥与禅宗的重要宗派临济宗的高僧多有交往，并崇信高僧大慧宗杲的学说。而其家族对佛教有虔诚的信仰，张孝祥自小耳濡目染，深受其影响。     

"Her" Marriage after the Revolutions

Recent social changes have made husbands' emotional investments and wives' perceptions of equity in the division of housework crucial for women's marital happiness. But wives are also happiest in their marriages when they share a strong normative commitment to lifelong marriage with their husbands and when their husbands take the lead in breadwinning. Thus our research suggests that elements of the new and the old promote marital happiness among contemporary wives.     

"三个代表":从党建思想到指导思想的飞跃

党的十六大把“三个代表”重要思想确立为全党的指导思想并写入党章 ,成为中国共产党的行动指南 ,实现了从党建思想到执政党指导思想的历史飞跃 ,这不是偶然的 ,而是有其深刻的理论依据和实践基础 ,是历史和时代发展的必然结果     

Race, Risk, and the Emergence of Gender Boundaries: Kids Crossing Boundaries in Summer Camps

My study explores how children established and crossed gender boundaries in four recreational settings with different racial compositions and patterns. Children generally marked boys' gender boundary crossing as more deviant than girls' crossing. However, the amount of gender salience structured into each setting and the salience of race in each setting affected campers' perceptions of the risks from gender boundary crossing and, thus, their strategies for crossing. My findings suggest that the perceived race of the actor may be less important than the race of the audience. Also crucial are the ways in which race category membership gives meaning to gender boundaries and to gender deviance in a particular situation.     

论言语行为中的性别差异

文章对言语行为理论作了概述,介绍了A ustin及其学生Searle对言语的行为理论的贡献;并对语言使用中的性别差异进行了分析,着重指出了在言语行为三大分类中“言内行为”中存在语音、词汇和句法等方面的性别差异。在此基础上揭示了产生这一现象的生理、心理以及社会的根源,最后指出了重视性别差异现象在英语教学中的意义。     

Religious affiliation and the family

The process of religious affiliation is mediated by institutions such as the family, which provide a network of ties to the public sphere. Variations in the likelihood of those with no religious affiliation in high school (N=900) becoming church members by the time they reach 30 are explained in terms of a combination of individual attributes, such as educational and spatial mobility, and changes in structural location, such as the transition to marital and parental status. Panel data from the Career Development Study show that women's chances of affiliation are more affected than are men's by parents' religious homogamy, getting married, and having children.