16th Annual Seminar 2019 Hamburg

Who gets what, how much and why? Inclusion and exclusion in access to paid leave within and between countries

Hamburg, Germany

August 29–30, 2019

• Seminar Program (PDF)
• Webinar with Prof. Dr. Ann-Zofie Duvander (Stockholm University) Parental Leave in International Comparison (PDF)
• Poster Session Australia (PDF), Austria (PDF), Belgium (PDF), Finland (PDF), Germany (PDF), Greece (PDF), Japan (PDF), Lithuania (PDF), Luxenbourg (PDF), Poland (PDF), Slovenia (PDF), South Africa (PDF), Spain (PDF), Sweden (PDF), United Kingdom (PDF), United States of America (PDF)

The seminar was funded by Tritz Thyssen Stiftung, Stabsstelle Gleichstellung (Universität Hamburg) and Gleichstellung der Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften (Universität Hamburg)

• Presentations 
• Birgit Pfau-Effinger: German parental leave policies in the context of cultural and institutional change (PDF)
• Thordis Reimer, Julia Höppner: Introduction to German parental leave policies: Challenging or reproducing inequalities? (PDF) 
• Session 2 – Inequalities between countries: a historical perspective on the design of parental leave policies and (in)equality
  Guðný Björk Eydal, Tine Rostgaard: Care policies in Nordic countries – challenges and continuity (PDF) 
• Eva-Maria Schmidt: Parental Leave Policies in Austria: Equal rights, unequal consequences? (PDF) 
• Ivana Dobrotić: (In)equality dynamic of leave policies reforms in the post-Yugoslav countries 
• Session 3 – Inequalities within countries: differences in access to parental leave benefits by workplace or employment status
  Gayle Kaufman, Richard Petts: Gendered employer policies in the United States (PDF) 
• Marie Valentova, Merve Uzunalioglu: Evaluation of parental leave in Luxembourg, focus on couples’ strategies and the role of workplace characteristics (PDF) 
• Jasmin Joecks, Anna Kurowska, Kerstin Pull: Demand-driven provision of childcare by employers. Comparison between Germany and Poland (PDF) 
• Session 4 – Inequalities within countries: differences in access to parental leave benefits by social status
  Deborah A. Widiss: Equalizing parental leave for sole parent families in the United States (PDF) 
• Annelies Van den Eynde, Anina Vercruyssen, Dimitri Mortelmans: The experience of work-family conflict among divorced parents in Flanders (PDF) 
• Ruta Braziene, Sonata Vysniauskiene: Inequalities in paid parental leave and flexible working time arrangements in Lithuania (PDF) 
• Keynote from Margaret O’Brien: Parental leave and inequalities - the haves and the have-nots (PDF)