Open this publication in new window or tab >>2024 (English)In: PLOS ONE, E-ISSN 1932-6203, Vol. 19, no 8, article id e0296210Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Background: Gender discrimination of women is often emphasized in work contexts, whereas less focus is on how men are discriminated against in social relationships. Gender discrimination in decisions of family relations, is essential to study as the contact between parent and child is commonly viewed as the most important relationship in people’s life, as well as being the most important aspect of our life. Following separations, decisions on custody disputes are made by social workers. The purpose of this paper is to study gender discrimination in such decisions.
Method: Participants were instructed to give a recommendation of shared parenting based on a custody case vinjett, where we manipulate the gender of the risk parent.
Results: The participants’ recommendation of living was mainly dependent on the risk parent’s gender, where the mother was considerably more likely to receive shared custody than the father.
Conclusions: Professional social workers show selective gender discrimination against fathers in terms of living recommendations.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2024
Keywords
Gender discrimination, Custody disputes.
National Category
Peace and Conflict Studies Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-207016 (URN)10.1371/journal.pone.0296210 (DOI)001305453900030 ()39190768 (PubMedID)
Funder
Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2023-01833
Note
We thank Jukka Kaski and Elin Tegnér for assisting in data collection. This paper is based on data collected for their Bachelor’s thesis in social work with their permission.
Funding Agencies|FORTE [2023-01833]
2024-08-282024-08-282025-02-20Bibliographically approved