The purpose of this essay is "How is time allocated in a family in between women and men who live in a relationship?" We conducted a qualitative interview study to answer the purpose of the study. The study was conducted based on semi-structured interviews with four couples consisting of a woman and a man living in a relationship. All couples live and work in Värmland and have at least one child living at home under 12 years of age. Three of the couples have children from previous relationships and two of them also have joint children, while the third couple is expecting their first newborn. The last couple has no children since previous relationships and two children in common. The results of our study indicate that even disposition of time in a family constellation requires that both the woman and the man have a consensus on how their joint time should be distributed. Structure, awareness, commitment and presence have been central to the couples in the study who have an even distribution of time and live equally. The couples have their own experiences of living in a relationship where time has not been evenly distributed and today strive together not to fall into stereotypical gender roles that contribute to an uneven distribution. What unites the couples who do not dispose of time evenly is characterized by gender norms and acts to some extent by traditional forms of action. The term third shift largely describes the basic aspects of how couples dispose of their time, the term aims to shed light on the time that is not perceived as measurable like the first and second shifts. One of our conclusions is that when the third shift is largely or completely attributed to one in the couple, the time is not divided evenly, this then only one is responsible for initiative and emotional presence.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kau-91780 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Karlsson, Julia, Nilsson, Veronica |
| Publisher | Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier (from 2013) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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