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Daddy Issues: Why Do Swedish Fathers Claim Paternity Leave At Higher Rates Than French Fathers?, Alexa L. Secrest
Daddy Issues: Why Do Swedish Fathers Claim Paternity Leave At Higher Rates Than French Fathers?, Alexa L. Secrest
Student Publications
The development of paid parental leave programs has become a growing part of national and international dialogues. In particular, the implementation of paternity leave is believed to facilitate women’s participation in the workforce, which most Western countries have outlined as an objective. In addition, paternity leave programs are also believed to foster more equitable work environments and challenge gender norms that stereotype women as the primary caregiver. As of 2016, about two-thirds of OECD countries provide some form of both paid maternity, paternity, and combined parental leave ; however, the gender composition of who claims these benefits is still largely …
Sweden's Parental Leave Insurance: A Policy Analysis Of Strategies To Increase Gender Equality, Juliana Carlson
Sweden's Parental Leave Insurance: A Policy Analysis Of Strategies To Increase Gender Equality, Juliana Carlson
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Sweden's parental leave insurance is recognized internationally as the premiere parental leave policy addressing gender equality. Since 1974, when the policy changed from maternal to parental leave, policy makers have employed a variety ofstrategies including inducements, rules, and rights, to increase more gender-equal leave taking. Using Stone's (2006) strategy conceptualization, together with the gender systems approach (Crompton, 1999) which frames the gendered and socially constructed nature of earner/caregiver, this analysis examines how each of Sweden's incremental reforms in parental leave policy moved toward the goal of gender equality, with particular attention to father participation in caregiving.
The Exploration Of Taiwan’S Parental Leave And The Reform Program: The Examination Of A Theory Perspective, Chih-Lung Huang
The Exploration Of Taiwan’S Parental Leave And The Reform Program: The Examination Of A Theory Perspective, Chih-Lung Huang
Chih-lung Huang
How to balance work and life along the continuation of economic globalization and post industrial transformation has been the research focus of social policy academics. This article examines the institution of parental leave and its reform program in Taiwan from Nancy Fraser’s perspective dualism-redistribution and recognition. The research result appears that the policy and reform program can’t make men to share the family care work on the perspective dualism. It is the key point that makes men and women undertake the employment labour and care work through the joint participation for future reform.