Publications / Other reports / 2006 / 2006:007 FOCUS - Fostering Caring Masculinities
FOCUS - Fostering Caring Masculinities
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Fostering Caring Masculinities (FOCUS) is a European project involving five countries; Germany, Iceland, Norway, Slovenia and Spain. This report is based on national reports from studies conducted in each of the partner countries, and brings together central findings from these studies. The overall objective of the project has been to examine and improve men’s opportunities for balancing work and private/family life, and particularly to encourage men to participate on equal terms with women in family life and care. In order to achieve the aims of integrating men’s perspectives into gender equality policies, more knowledge and experience is needed. Therefore, the main focus of the project has been to carry through workplace studies in two companies in each of the five partner countries. In these studies, the companies’ framework conditions for reconciliation of work and private/family life have been examined, and employees at different levels have been interviewed about their experiences with the juggling act of reconciling work and private/family life. Additionally, the project has examined the ways in which national frameworks differ according to the conditions for reconciliation between people’s working and private lives.