Parental leavegender equalitysocial normssocial interactionpolicy evaluationSocial norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' ...
Individual Parental Leave for Fathers: Promoting Gender Equality in Norway Elin Kvande 1 Introduction How to increase fathers' use of parental leave is a relevant question for countries that want to promote men's involvement in childrearing and gender equality more broadly. As countries are ...
These minority fathers, however, take some of the longest leave in the world. Driven by such notable trends, this paper inquires how norms about childcare and working hours shape Korean fathers' decision to take leave as well as work-family balance after leave. I find that fathers are often...
Reforms of Parental Leave Benefits and the Taxation of Married Couples Could Enhance Gender Equality Germany is characterised by large gender gaps in the labour market. Both the gender pay gap as well as the gender gap in working hours are among the highes... WrohlichKatharina - 《Wirtschaft...
In this study, Sweden is utilized as a context in which the family policy constellation provides a real opportunity for both fathers' and mothers' leave-taking. The number of parental leave weeks taken by the father and the mother in the first two years of the child's life is analyzed ...
Profiles of Father Involvement Following Parental Separation Article 02 January 2024 1 Introduction Over the last decades, there has been a remarkable shift in the social and cultural norms shaping fathers’ involvement with their children, reflecting changes in family gender roles and the division of...
Father Involvement and Gender Equality in the United States: Contemporary Norms and Barriers 2022, Father Involvement and Gender Equality in the United States: Contemporary Norms and Barriers Attitudes about paid parental leave: Cross-national comparisons and the significance of gendered expectations, famil...
Qualitative results suggest that although gender equality and equalparenting is central to the first-time, middle-class parents that were interviewed, moretraditional norms and ideals about the mother as the primary caretaker may stand in the wayof an equal sharing of the leave during...
Parental leave . Paternity leave Introduction During the last decades, the role of the father in his children's lives has become an important focus in European family policy. In particular, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden have reserved a part of the paid parental leave exclusively for the...
Quantitative analysis of 20,000 Swedish parents with children aged between 2 and 7, however, shows mothers to be 14 times more likely to work part time than fathers. Gender imbalance in parents' part-time employment is thus even more pronounced than in their parental leave take-up, at least...