UID:
almafu_9960707251902883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 377 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-4473-3882-0
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1-4473-3879-0
Series Statement:
Policy Press scholarship online
Content:
This volume provides an international perspective on parental leave policies in different countries, and goes beyond this to examine a range of issues in depth, aiming to stimulate thinking about possible futures and how policy might underpin them.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).
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Front Matter --
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Contents --
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List of figures and tables --
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List of abbreviations --
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Notes on contributors --
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Acknowledgements --
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Introduction: much work still to do --
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Recent developments and the politics of leave policy --
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Spain: leave policy in times of economic crisis --
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Poland: leave policy and the process and goals of a major reform --
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United Kingdom: leave policy and an attempt to take a new path --
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Israel: leave policy, familialism and the neoliberal welfare state --
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Japan: leave policy and attempts to increase fathers’ take-up --
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China: leave and population policies --
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Mexico: leave policy, co-responsibility in childcare and informal employment --
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United States: leave policy, failure and potential --
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Some current issues in leave policy --
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What do people want? Leave policy preferences in different countries --
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Gender equality: Parental Leave design and evaluating its effects on fathers’ participation --
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Flexibility: some consequences for fathers’ caregiving --
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The workplace: challenges for fathers and their use of leave --
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Care-work policies: conceptualizing leave within a broader framework --
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A social right? Access to leave and its relation to parents’ labour market position --
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Future directions for leave policy --
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Universal Basic Income: what could it mean for gender equality in care work? --
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The time credit system: the panacea for a life course approach? --
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Towards a multi-active society: daring to imagine a new work–life regime --
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Re-imagining Parental Leave: a conceptual ‘thought experiment’ --
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Parental Leave and beyond: recent international developments, current issues and future directions --
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4473-3878-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4473-3877-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.56687/9781447338796
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781447338796/type/BOOK
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