Parenting and Work in Poland

Katarzyna Suwada is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. She defended her PhD in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland in March 2015. She has published Men, Fathering and the Gender Trap. Sweden and Poland compared (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Currently, she is conducting research on parenthood experiences of Polish mothers and fathers. She is particularly interested in how they combine parental obligations with paid work in the context of gender and economic inequalities. Beside parenthood, her research focuses on masculinities, gender relations, the sociology of families, social inequalities, feminist theories and methodologies. She is an author of three books and multiple articles in sociological journals. She is a member of the executive board of the Research Network 13 “Sociology of families and intimate lives” of the European Sociological Association, a member of the executive board of the Section of Gender Sociology of the Polish Sociological Association. She is also an associate editor of the Journal of Family Studies.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- ​Chapter 2: Parenting, work and gender. Sociological perspective.- Chapter 3: Care work and parenting.- Chapter 4: Paid work and parenting.- Chapter 5: Domestic work and parenting.- Chapter 6: Conclusions: power relations and parenting.