Chapter 11: How parenting leaves impact parental employment, family work, and gender norms: a literature review

This chapter reviews existing studies showing how statutory parenting leave policies impact labour market outcomes, involvement in unpaid family work, and beliefs and norms about the gender division of work. As parenting leave policies have been introduced at a growing pace across the world over the...

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Main Authors: Schober, Pia S., Büchau, Silke
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Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Edward Elgar Publishing 2023
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description This chapter reviews existing studies showing how statutory parenting leave policies impact labour market outcomes, involvement in unpaid family work, and beliefs and norms about the gender division of work. As parenting leave policies have been introduced at a growing pace across the world over the past three decades and have increasingly been evaluated more systematically since the 2000s, we include studies published in journals in the English language between 1990 and 2020. Due to data availability, the geographical focus is on high-quality impact evaluations from high-income countries, but we also consider several cross-nationally comparative studies, including a more diverse set of countries. Methodologically, we focus on multi-country studies, reform evaluation studies, and longitudinal studies of leave take-up. On the whole, our review points to mostly moderate effects of parenting leave policies on a more gender-equal division of paid and family work but relatively fast changes in norms and beliefs.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1012712023-07-12T13:37:25Z Chapter 11: How parenting leaves impact parental employment, family work, and gender norms: a literature review Schober, Pia S. Büchau, Silke Parenting Leave; Employment; housework; childcare; gender roles; social norms JFF This chapter reviews existing studies showing how statutory parenting leave policies impact labour market outcomes, involvement in unpaid family work, and beliefs and norms about the gender division of work. As parenting leave policies have been introduced at a growing pace across the world over the past three decades and have increasingly been evaluated more systematically since the 2000s, we include studies published in journals in the English language between 1990 and 2020. Due to data availability, the geographical focus is on high-quality impact evaluations from high-income countries, but we also consider several cross-nationally comparative studies, including a more diverse set of countries. Methodologically, we focus on multi-country studies, reform evaluation studies, and longitudinal studies of leave take-up. On the whole, our review points to mostly moderate effects of parenting leave policies on a more gender-equal division of paid and family work but relatively fast changes in norms and beliefs. Published 2023-07-12T13:37:23Z 2023-07-12T13:37:23Z 2022-12-09 chapter https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/101271 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9781800372214/book-part-9781800372214-21.xml Edward Elgar Publishing Edward Elgar Publishing https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800372214.00021 https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800372214.00021 01ceac28-75b4-492a-8eec-f9b98bc6b28c https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Edward Elgar Publishing Cheltenham, UK open access
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