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The world is in the midst of societal shifts in gender role expectations. In many societies, traditional norms of woman as nurturer/caregiver and man as provider/disciplinarian are yielding to new social practices where women and men are expected to fulfill a full range of adult roles and responsibilities. Perhaps the clearest evidence of global change lies less in evolving workforce statistics, and more in the numbers of men in public with infants strapped to their chests, pushing strollers on the street, and at the diaper changing tables inside men’s restrooms at restaurants, malls, and airports.Fathers and fathering figures involvement
In her book Time to Care, former United States of America Health and Human Services Associate Commissioner of the Child Care Bureau, Joan Lombardi (2003), notes: “The influx of women into the workforce was one of the most significant societal changes in the twentieth century,” (p. 2) and in a related trend that “Increasingly, fathers are joining in as full partners in the care of their children” (p. 19). Statistics do suggest that many men openly accept their role of “involved Dad.”
A 2002 national workforce study by Bond, Thompson, Galinsky, and Prottas (2002) found that Generation X fathers �" those men born ...