Parental Leave and Beyond

Recent International Developments, Current Issues and Future Directions

Moss, Peter, Duvander, Ann-Zofie, Moss, Peter, Duvander, Ann-Zofie

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2019
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781447338796
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Marriage & Family Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

This volume brings together contributors from 18 countries to provide international perspectives on the politics of parental leave policies in different parts of the world. Initially looking at the politics of care leave policies in eight countries across Europe, the US, Latin America and Asia, the book moves on to consider a variety of key issues in depth, including gender equality, flexibility and challenges for fathers in using leave. In the final section of the book, contributors look beyond the early parenthood period to consider possible future directions for care leave policy in order to address the wider changes and challenges that our societies face.

Table of contents

• PARENTAL LEAVE AND BEYOND
• Contents
• List of figures and tables
• List of abbreviations
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction: much work still to do
• PART I. Recent developmentsand the politics of leave policy
• 2. Spain: leave policy in times of economic crisis
• 3. Poland: leave policy and the process and goals of a major reform
• 4. United Kingdom: leave policy and an attempt to take a new path
• 5. Israel: leave policy, familialism and the neoliberal welfare state
• 6. Japan: leave policy and attempts to increase fathers’ take-up
• 7. China: leave and population policies
• 8. Mexico: leave policy, co‑responsibility in childcare and informal employment
• 9. United States: leave policy, failure and potential
• PART II. Some current issues in leave policy
• 10. What do people want? Leave policy preferences in different countries
• 11. Gender equality: Parental Leave design and evaluating its effects on fathers’ participation
• 12. Flexibility: some consequences for fathers’ caregiving
• 13. The workplace: challenges for fathers and their use of leave
• 14. Care-work policies: conceptualising leave within a broader framework
• 15. A social right? Access to leave and its relation to parents’ labour market position
• PART III. Future directions for leave policy
• 16. Universal Basic Income: what could it mean for gender equality in care work?
• 17. The time credit system: the panacea for a life course approach?
• 18. Towards a multi-active society: daring to imagine a new work–life regime
• 19. Re-imagining Parental Leave: a conceptual ‘thought experiment’
• 20. Parental Leave and beyond: recent international developments, current issues and future directions
• Index