1. Introduction : locating men in the work-life nexus / Paula McDonald and Emma Jeanes -- 2. The work-family dilemmas of Japan's salarymen / Scott North -- 3. The gender equal father? : the (welfare) politics of masculinity in Sweden, 1960-2010 /?sa Lundqvist -- 4. Men's work-life choices :...

Despite their many workplace advances, women remain constrained by an enduring social expectation that they will manage their families' domestic lives. Women will not achieve full workplace equality until men do more at home, and men will not enter the domestic sphere if they face employment...

Using data from the first wave of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS) for 1,451 men aged 40–59 we examine the impact of permanent childlessness. We extend on previous work by focusing on partnership history as a possible explanation for differences between childless men and fathers. Our...