"The new study, published in Work and Occupations, sought to examine how gender empowerment impacts what the researchers call workers' nonwork-work and work-nonwork interference. Nonwork-work interference, Slate explained, occurs when family obligations spill into work; work-nonwork interference is when work affects family lives....
"Another potential factor is that men in Sweden still make more money than women, so they feel obligated to work more to provide for their families. Also, though men and women have the option of taking equal time for maternity and paternity leave, women still take 75 percent of a couple's available shared leave. That means that in early childhood, when dads are perhaps expected to be most hands-on, they are also expected to work more than their partners. Work-life balance is not the only challenge facing new fathers in Sweden. According to the Swedish news publication The "Local, a new study from the Karolinska Institute found that men in Sweden are just as likely as Swedish women to experience the so-called "baby blues," or depressive symptoms after the birth of a child...."
Ruppanner & Huffman. (2013). "Blurred Boundaries: Gender and Work–Family Interference in Cross-National Context." Work and Occupations. Abstract.
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