Abstract
ABSTRACTThe empirical research on corporate managers has rarely focused on the situation in Latin America, and it has rarely addressed managers’ intimate lives. Based on life-history interviews with young corporate managers (aged 30-45), and some of their wives, this paper examines the changes and continuities in the patterns of fatherhood in the Chilean ruling class, and their relation to hegemonic masculinity. The tensions that these men face are discussed, exploring how they navigate between the simultaneous pressure for having a successful career and for embodying an involved fatherhood. Findings suggest changes in the way managers practice their fatherhood, and also, variations in the way these practices are deployed. These variations are expressed in two patterns of fatherhood in the managerial sector as response to this tension, being related to organisational and family dynamics. The biographical material suggests that these changes and variations are not necessarily related to more equitable gender relations, but to a reconfiguration of hegemonic masculinity.
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