Parental Leave and Beyond: Recent International Developments, Current Issues and Future Directions

ISBN-13: 9781447338772 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 392 str.

Peter Moss; Ann-Zofie Duvander; Alison Koslowski

Spis treści

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, Guðný 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 Dobrotić 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.