Gender blender : an analysis of gender roles in Singaporean households

This paper seeks to address potential changes in the gender roles of Working Parent (WP) households and Stay-at-home Dad (SAHD) households in Singapore. According to Beck’s theory of second modernity where gender boundaries are increasingly blurred, it would be interesting to note how the social con...

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Main Authors: Lim, Benjamin Wee Seng, Ong, Jue Ying
Other Authors: Felicity Chan
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Language:English
Published: 2019
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-788072019-12-10T12:46:56Z Gender blender : an analysis of gender roles in Singaporean households Lim, Benjamin Wee Seng Ong, Jue Ying Felicity Chan School of Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women This paper seeks to address potential changes in the gender roles of Working Parent (WP) households and Stay-at-home Dad (SAHD) households in Singapore. According to Beck’s theory of second modernity where gender boundaries are increasingly blurred, it would be interesting to note how the social context of Singapore would influence the results of such changes. Through semi-structured interviews, it explores how parents split household responsibilities as well as caregiving roles between WP and SAHD households. Household responsibilities as well as caregiving roles are now less gendered and more rationalized through the use of household strategies. Whilst this highlighted the agency of individuals, such agency is restricted to normative conventions of gender put in place by the society. Bachelor of Arts in Sociology 2019-06-28T06:36:48Z 2019-06-28T06:36:48Z 2019 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/78807 en Nanyang Technological University 35 p. application/pdf
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Lim, Benjamin Wee Seng
Ong, Jue Ying
Gender blender : an analysis of gender roles in Singaporean households
description This paper seeks to address potential changes in the gender roles of Working Parent (WP) households and Stay-at-home Dad (SAHD) households in Singapore. According to Beck’s theory of second modernity where gender boundaries are increasingly blurred, it would be interesting to note how the social context of Singapore would influence the results of such changes. Through semi-structured interviews, it explores how parents split household responsibilities as well as caregiving roles between WP and SAHD households. Household responsibilities as well as caregiving roles are now less gendered and more rationalized through the use of household strategies. Whilst this highlighted the agency of individuals, such agency is restricted to normative conventions of gender put in place by the society.
author2 Felicity Chan
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Lim, Benjamin Wee Seng
Ong, Jue Ying
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author Lim, Benjamin Wee Seng
Ong, Jue Ying
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title Gender blender : an analysis of gender roles in Singaporean households
title_short Gender blender : an analysis of gender roles in Singaporean households
title_full Gender blender : an analysis of gender roles in Singaporean households
title_fullStr Gender blender : an analysis of gender roles in Singaporean households
title_full_unstemmed Gender blender : an analysis of gender roles in Singaporean households
title_sort gender blender : an analysis of gender roles in singaporean households
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