Gender Division of Labor and Intergenerational Support: the Shaping of New Fatherhood Practices by Family Relations

WU Jing

doi:10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2024060093

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WU Jing. Gender Division of Labor and Intergenerational Support: the Shaping of New Fatherhood Practices by Family Relations[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2025, 41(5): 135-143. doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2024060093

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WU Jing. Gender Division of Labor and Intergenerational Support: the Shaping of New Fatherhood Practices by Family Relations[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2025, 41(5): 135-143. doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2024060093

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Gender Division of Labor and Intergenerational Support: the Shaping of New Fatherhood Practices by Family Relations

doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2024060093

WU Jing

School of Humanities and Law, Inner Mongolia University of Science & Technology, Baotou 014010, China

Received Date: 2024-06-23
Publish Date: 2025-10-25

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New fatherhood is an emerging and important research field in China, and this paper examines the practice of new fatherhood in a family network consisting of couples and generations, using data from the China Family Panel Studies 2020 (CFPS2020) in light of the local characteristics of Chinese family relationships. It was found that, from a gender division of labor perspective, maternal employment increased fathers' relative time spent on childcare and the likelihood that fathers become the primary caregiver for children at night; from an intergenerational support perspective, grandparental assistance in childcare led to a decreasing trend in the relative and absolute time of paternal childcare, and fathers' likelihood of being the primary caregiver for children at night. Based on these, this paper argues that fatherhood is not only a reflexive practice based on individual membership, but also the result of a complex interplay of gender norms, intergenerational relationships, which reflects the family-oriented relational characteristics of Chinese fatherhood practices.
- new fatherhood,
- gender division,
- intergenerational support

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