The politics of parental leave policies : children, parenting, gender and the labour market / edited by Sheila Kamerman and Peter Moss.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kamerman, Sheila B.

Moss, Peter, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Family leave--Europe.

Family leave--Government policy--Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 286 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<i>The Politics of Parental Leave Policies</i> addresses how and why, and by whom, particular policies are created and subsequently developed in particular countries. It examines the factors that bring about variations in leave policy, covering fifteen countries in Europe and beyond.

Contents:

11. The Netherlands: bridging labour and care12. Norway: the making of the father's quota; 13. Portugal and Spain: two pathways in Southern Europe; 14. Sweden: individualisation or free choice in parental leave?; 15. The European directive: making supra-national parental leave policy; 16. Conclusion; Appendix; Index.

The politics of parental leave policies; Contents; List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Australia: the difficult birth of paid maternity leave; 3. Canada and Quebec: two policies, one country; 4. Czech Republic: normative or choice-oriented system?; 5. Estonia: halfway from the Soviet Union to the Nordic countries; 6. Finland: negotiating tripartite compromises; 7. France: gender equality a pipe dream?; 8. Germany: taking a Nordic turn?; 9. Hungary and Slovenia: long leave or short?; 10. Iceland: from reluctance to fast-track engineering.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Jul 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612501616

9781447303961

1447303962

9781282501614

1282501615

9781847427779

1847427774

OCLC:

609404832