Javornik, J and Kurowska, A (2017) Work and Care Opportunities under Different Parental Leave Systems: Gender and Class Inequalities in Northern Europe. Social Policy & Administration, 51 (4). pp. 617-637. ISSN 0144-5596
Abstract
This article analyses public parental leave in eight northern European countries, and assesses its opportunity potential to facilitate equal parental involvement and employment, focusing on gender and income opportunity gaps. It draws on Sen's capability and Weber's ideal‐types approach to analyze policies across countries. It offers the ideal parental leave architecture, one which minimizes the policy‐generated gender and class inequality in parents’ opportunities to share parenting and keep their jobs, thus providing real opportunities for different groups of individuals to achieve valued functionings as parents. Five policy indicators are created using benchmarking and graphical analysis. Two sources of opportunity inequality are considered: the leave system as the opportunity and constraint structure, and the socio‐economic contexts as the conversion factors. The article produces a comprehensive overview of national leave policies, visually presenting leave policy across countries. Considering policy capability ramifications beyond gender challenges a family policy‐cluster idea and the Nordic‐Baltic divide. It demonstrates that leave systems in northern Europe are far from homogenous; they diverge in the degree to which they create real opportunities for parents and children as well as in key policy dimensions through which these opportunities are created.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Javornik, J and Kurowska, A (2017) Work and Care Opportunities under Different Parental Leave Systems: Gender and Class Inequalities in Northern Europe. Social Policy & Administration, 51 (4). pp. 617-637 , which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12316. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. |
Keywords: | Family policy; Gender and class; Capability; Comparative analysis; Policy indicators; Nordic and Baltic |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Work and Employment Relation Division (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 27 Nov 2018 15:07 |
Last Modified: | 04 Jun 2019 00:43 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/spol.12316 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:139204 |