Full Description
This volume provides an international perspective on parental leave policies in different countries, goes beyond this to examine a range of issues in depth, and aims to stimulate thinking about possible futures and how policy might underpin them.
Contents
1. Introduction: much work still to do ‾ Ann-Zofie Duvander, Alison Koslowski and Peter Moss;
Part I: Recent developments and the politics of leave policy;
2. Spain: leave policy in times of economic crisis ‾ Gerardo Meil, Jesús Rogero-García and Pedro Romero-Balsas;
3. Poland: leave policy and the process and goals of a major reform ‾ Anna Kurowska;
4. United Kingdom: leave policy and an attempt to take a new path ‾ Peter Moss and Margaret O'Brien;
5. Israel: leave policy, familialism and the neoliberal welfare state‾Nadav Perez-Vaisvidovsky;
6. Japan: leave policy and attempts to increase fathers' take-up‾Hideki Nakazato;
7. China: leave and population policies ‾ Shirley Gatenio Gabel, Wen-Jui Han and Xiaoran Wang;
8. Mexico: leave policy, co-responsibility in childcare and informal employment‾ Cándido Pérez-Hernández and Anna Escobedo;
9. United States: leave policy, failure and potential ‾ Gayle Kaufman;
Part II: Some current issues in leave policy;
10. What do people want? Leave policy preferences in different countries ‾ Isabel Valarino;
11. Gender equality: Parental Leave design and evaluating its effects on fathers' participation ‾ Ann-Zofie Duvander, Guðny Björk Eydal, Berit 12. Brandth, Ingólfur V. Gíslason, Johanna Lammi-Taskula and Tine Rostgaard;
12. Flexibility: some consequences for fathers' caregiving ‾ Berit Brandth and Elin Kvande
13. The workplace: challenges for fathers and their use of leave ‾ Valérie Harvey and Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay;
14. Care-work policies: conceptualising leave within a broader framework ‾ Sara Mazzucchelli, Luca Pesenti and M.Letizia Bosoni;
15. A social right? Access to leave and its relation to parents' labour market position ‾ Ivana Dobroti? and Sonja Blum;
Part III: Future directions for leave policy;
16. Universal Basic Income: what could it mean for gender equality in care work? ‾ Alison Koslowski;
17. The time credit system: the panacea for a life course approach? ‾ Laura Merla and Fred Deven;
18. Towards a multi-active society: daring to imagine a new work-life regime ‾ Bernard Fusulier and Chantal Nicole-Drancourt;
19. Reimagining Parental Leave: a conceptual `thought experiment' ‾Andrea Doucet, Lindsey McKay and Sophie Mathieu;
20. Parental Leave and beyond: recent developments, current issues, future directions ‾ Ann-Zofie Duvander, Alison Koslowski and Peter Moss.
