The Parental Night Shift: Gendered Inequalities in Night-time Care
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Project description
This project examines gendered inequalities in parenting in families with young children from the novel perspective of night-time care and the intimate, ‘forgotten hours’ between late evenings and early mornings. The main aim of the study is to produce scientifically and societally significant knowledge and theorising on the entanglements of night-time care and parenting inequalities by studying parents’ personal experiences of the ‘night shift’ in three European contexts: Finland, the UK and Spain. The project is the first multinational effort in social sciences to study parental inequalities through night-time care.
The study will apply a wide variety of qualitative methods, including discursive, narrative, and intersectional analysis. In each country, qualitative in-depth interviews with parents will be conducted. Theoretically the project is founded on and contributes to the fields of critical family and parenting studies and sociology of sleep.
