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- Title
Who Gets the Daddy Bonus?
- Authors
Hodges, Melissa J.; Budig, Michelle J.
- Abstract
Using the 1979-2006 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we investigate how the earnings bonus for fatherhood varies by characteristics associated with hegemonic masculinity in the American workplace: heterosexual marital status, professional/managerial status, educational attainment, skill demands of jobs, and race/ethnicity. We find the earnings bonus for fatherhood persists after controlling for an array of differences, including human capital, labor supply, family structure, and wives’ employment status. Moreover, consistent with predictions from the theory of hegemonic masculinity within bureaucratic organizations, the fatherhood bonus is significantly larger for men with other markers of workplace hegemonic masculinity. Men who are white, married, in households with a traditional gender division of labor, college graduates, professional/managerial workers and whose jobs emphasize cognitive skills and deemphasize physical strength receive the largest fatherhood earnings bonuses.
- Subjects
EMPLOYEE bonuses; FATHERHOOD; MASCULINITY &; society; HEGEMONY; EMPLOYEE benefits; EDUCATIONAL attainment; GENDER
- Publication
Gender & Society, 2010, Vol 24, Issue 6, p717
- ISSN
0891-2432
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0891243210386729