15th Annual Seminar 2018 Toronto

July 13–14, 2018

Session 1: Canada and the Province of Québec: ‘One Country, Two Leave Benefit Regimes, Many Complexities’

Rutha Astravas, Employment and Social Development, Government of Canada: Overview of Canadian parental leave policies

Nicholas-James Clavet, Conseil de gestion de l’assurance parentale, Government of Québec: Overview of Québec parental leave policies

Diane Gabrielle Tremblay, TELUQ, University du Québec, Canada: The Québec Parental Insurance Program: Impacts on fathers’ participation in the family

Andrea Doucet, Brock University, Canada, Lindsey McKay, Thompson Rivers University, Canada and Sophie Mathieu, Brock University, Canada: Canadian Parental Leave Policies: design, equality, fit and futures

Session 2: The United States 

Shirley Gatenio Gabel, Fordham University, USA and Gayle Kaufman, Davidson College, USA: The path less chosen: Evolution of parental leave in the USA

Cassandra Engeman, Stockholm University, Sweden: Breaking the liberal-market mold? Family policy variation across U.S. states and why it matters

Session 3: How does parental leave fit with other care policies?

Fred Deven, Population and Family Research Centre, Belgium and Peter Moss, University College London, UK: Leave in Europe: Laws, policies and social issues

Ivana Dobrotić, University of Zagreb, Croatia and Sonja Blum, University of Hagen, Germany: Social and gender inequalities in access to parental leave benefits: Trends in European countries and their relation to family policy paradigms

Alison Koslowski, University of Edinburgh, UK: Universal basic income, parenting leave and gender equality

Session 4A and 4B (concurrent sessions): What leave policy designs maximize equality and impact – and for whom? Insights from the Global South and North
Session 4A

Karina Batthyany, University of the Republic, Uruguay: Parental leaves and care in Uruguay

Candido Perez, Early Institute, Mexico: New developments in Mexican parental leave policies

Bila Sorj, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Class, gender and maternity and paternity leaves in Brazil

Session 4B

Frances Camilleri-Cassar, University of Malta, Malta: The right to time: unequal working hours and the failure of gender equality policies

Johanna Lammi-Taskula, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland: Current challenges in leave policies in Finland

Marian Baird and Elizabeth Hill, University of Sydney, Australia: Menstrual leave – A new controversy?

Sessions 5A and 5B (concurrent sessions): What leave policy designs maximize gender equality and impact?
Sesssion 5A

Elin Kvande and Berit Brandth, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway: Individual leave for fathers in Norway: Promoting gender equality

Leo Gordon and Marian Baird, University of Sydney, Australia: Dad and partner pay: The emergence of paternity leave in Australia

Gerardo Meil, Pedro Romero-Balsas, Concepción Castrillo-Bustamante, Universidad Autonoma, Spain: Leave policy in the context of the economic crisis: The effectiveness of corporate gender equality plans in improving leave provisions in Spain

Session 5B

Rūta Brazienė and Sonata Vyšniauskienė, Lithuanian Centre for Social Research, Lithuania: Parental Leave Policies in Lithuania: New Developments and Social Issues

Nada Stropnik, Institute of Economic Research, Slovenia and Ivana Dobrotic, University of Zagreb, Croatia: Childbirth related leaves in the European former communist countries: Transitions in the last several decades

Ann-Zofie Duvander and Ida Viklund, Stockholm University, Sweden: Women’s and men’s parental leave – paid and unpaid work

Session 6

Katrin Schulz and Tanya Primiani, World Bank Group, USA: Measuring impacts: Leaves and gender equality

Alieza Durana and Haley Swenson, Better Life Lab, New America/Slate Magazine: Paid Family Leave: How much time is enough?

Sessions 7A and 7B (concurrent sessions): Measuring Impacts: Leaves, policy design, and gender equality
Session 7A

Richard J. Petts, Ball State, USA and Chris Knoester (Ohio State, USA): Predictors and consequences of leave-taking among American fathers

Alexandra Macht, Oxford Brookes University, UK: Children’s agency, father’s positive health and work-related benefits, and paternal leave provisions in Scotland and Romania

Guðný Björk Eydal, University of Iceland, Iceland: Fathers quota in Iceland for eighteen years: The effects on work and care

Session 7B

Anna Kurowska, Institute of Social Policy, University of Warsaw, Poland: Comparison of real opportunities provided by parental leaves set in socio-economic and institutional contexts: A capability approach perspective

Malgorzata Mikucka and Marie Valentova, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Luxemburg: Employed or Inactive? Cross-national differences in coding parental leave beneficiaries in Labour Force Survey data and its consequences for comparative research

Rachel Margolis, University of Western Ontario, Canada; Feng Hou, Mike Haan, and Anders Holm: The Use and Sharing of Parental Leave in Canada: Two policy changes