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This article examines men's and women's reasoning regarding part-time unpaid parental leave use intentions once paid leave ends by using 52 original interviews conducted with highly educated men and women aged 24 years to 35 years in stable partnerships in Spain. We identify three part-time unpaid parental leave use strategies concealing six different narratives. Our results offer interesting gender discrepancies that reveal intended unpaid leave use arrangements. Our comparison of men's and women's narratives suggests that men seem to overestimate the egalitarianism within their relationships by being highly predisposed to take unpaid leave. Our analysis indicates that economic uncertainty and labor-market barriers (including persistent gender inequality) perpetuate a gendered use of this gender-neutral policy even among couples who show strong gender-egalitarian attitudes.

This article explores the barriers and strategies experienced by Spanish working fathers regarding work-family balance. Based on 29 in-depth interviews with Spanish working fathers in different types of organizations and sectors, the results of this study present different barriers that are divided into three groups: contextual barriers, organizational barriers and internalized barriers. The results also suggest that the study's participants fall into three categories or patterns: hegemonic gender order conformers, borderers and deviants, who use three different strategies (no strategies, invisible strategies and visible strategies) to overcome the barriers detected in this research. The dynamics of reinforcing, being complicit and challenging hegemonic masculinities within the workplace are discussed in light of recent theories regarding gender and organizations, masculinities and fatherhood.

PurposeThis paper aims to contribute to the academic literature in two ways. Firstly, the paper will analyse the impact of the financial crisis on the level of flexibility, autonomy and stress of Spanish employees. Secondly, it aims to identify if the impact of the economic crisis on the work‐family balance differs by sex, educational level, economic sector and regions across Spain.Design/methodology/approachThe paper reviews relevant literature in social policy and work‐family balance. Two databases (2005 Ad hoc Module on work life balance; 2010 Ad hoc module on conciliation between working life and family life) were analysed in order to characterise work‐family balance before and during the economic recession.FindingsThe findings revealed that: economic crisis had a negative impact on the control and autonomy that Spaniards had of their jobs; economic crisis diminishes the level of flexibility at work; and economic crisis had a negative impact on the level of stress among Spanish employees.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper lays out several avenues for further research which would provide additional insight into the relationship between economic crisis and work‐family balance.Originality/valueDespite the explosive growth in the work‐family literature, it is not easy to find empirical evidence showing the relationship between financial crisis and work‐family balance. This paper fills some of the gaps. Moreover, the case of Spain is very interesting given the very specific circumstances of austerity there.

This volume explores the ritual geography of a pilgrimage system that arose around medieval saints in Norway, a country now being transformed by petroleum riches, neoliberalism, migration, and global warming. It maps how pilgrims, hosts, church officials, and government officials participate in reshaping narratives of landscape, sacrality, and pilgrimage as a symbol of life journey, nation, identity, Christianity, and Protestant reflections on the durability of medieval Catholic saints.

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