18th Annual Seminar 2021 Helsinki

The Politics of Parental Leave Policies

Helsinki, Finland

September 16–17, 2021

• Seminar Program (PDF)
• Presentations

  • Anna Elomäki (Tampere University): The Politics of Parental leave policies in Finland (PPTX) 

  • Minna Salmi (Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare THL): The Parental leave Reform 2021: what is new (PDF)

  • Anneli Miettinen (The Social Insurance Institution of Finland Kela): Trends in the take-up of leave in Finland: Slow progress in fathers’ leave take-up despite several reforms (PDF)

  • Ásdís Aðalbjörg Arnalds, Guðný Björk Eydal and Ingólfur V. Gíslason: Revision of the paid parental leave system in Iceland: Towards individualization despite  broken consensus (PDF)

  • Ivana Drobrotic (Croatia): Same challenges, different solutions: how to explain the variations in leave policy development in Croatia and Serbia (PDF)

  • Gerardo Meil and Anna Escobedo (Spain): The path to equal rights to leave provisions for fathers and mothers in Spain (PDF)

  • Ann-Zofie Duvander (Sweden): Social Inclusion or Gender Equality? Political Discourses on Parental Leave in Finland and Sweden (PPTX) 

  • Zuzana Dancikova (Slovakia): To Leave or Not to Leave: Gender as Multi-level Constraint on Fathers’ Leave Uptake in Slovakia (PPTX)

  • Eva-Maria Schmidt and Christiane Rille-Pfeiffer (Austria): Assessing policy changes in Austria: more fathers, more gender equality? (PDF)

  • Ruta Braziene (Lithuania): Paternity and Parental Leave and Father's Involvement in Lithuania (PDF)

  • Sophie Mathieu, Andrea Doucet and Lindsey McKay (Canada): Puzzles and paradoxes in father’s use of parental benefits in Québec (PDF)

  • Suzy Morrissey (New Zealand): How gender equality was conceptualized in the PPL policies in New Zealand and Norway (PPTX)

  • Hideki Nakazato (Japan): Politics of Parental Leave Policies in Japan: Ideals and Realities in the reform to promote fathers’ take-up (PDF) 

  • Kalina Ilieva, Elitsa Dimitrova and Tatyana Kotzeva (Bulgaria): Regulations in practice: the law on parental leaves, public childcare and parental opinions in Bulgaria (PPTX)

  • Sonata Vysniauskiene (Lithuania): Paid parental leave preferences of women and men in Lithuania (PDF)

  • Youngcho Lee (UK): Fathers’ uptake of leave and couple-level intentions for continued childbearing in South Korea (PPTX)

  • Anna Bagirova and Natalia Blednova (Russia): Parental leave as a period of intense parental labour in Russia (PPTX)

  • Sonja Blum, Germany & Ivana Drobrotic (Croatia): Pandemic childcare-policy responses in 28 European countries: A fuzzy-set ideal type analysis (PDF)

  • Elin Kvande & Berit Brandth (Norway): Research from three studies conducted at various stages since the introduction of the quota (PPTX)