Announcements

9/2026: The 22nd International Review covers 53 countries, comprises country reports and cross-country comparisons and data, and can be accessed now here.

10/2024: New publications from Marian Baird and colleagues! 

Book: The Multigenerational Workforce: Managing Age and Gender at Work. 

Paper: The Importance of Recognition: Predictors and Outomes of Carer Recognition among Working Carers of Ageing Relatives.

04/2023: In their new book, Ann-Zofie Duvander and Alison Koslowski map out the availability of leave to immigrants in a recent article in Genus: Access to Parenting Leaves for recent Immigrants: A cross-national View of Policyarchitecture in Europe.

10/2024: Former LP&R Network coordinator Ann-Zofie Duvander talks about the Swedish parental insurance in the video on this “crazy proposal”: A crazy proposal – about the Swedish parental insurance (Ett vansinnigt förslag) English subtitles

04/2023: In their new working paper, Susanne Fahlén and Ann-Zofie Duvander analyse Swedish Fathers who do not use parental leave: Fathers who do not use parental leave - A register-based Analysis of Swedish Fathers to Children born between 1994 and 2017

12/2022: In their new book, Ivana Dobrotić, Sonja Blum, and Alison Koslowski provide a comprehensive overview of conceptual and methodological developments and state-of-the-art findings on leave policy determinants and outcomes globally.: Research Handbook on Leave Policy. Parenting and Social Inequalities in a Global Perspective Elgar Handbooks in Social Policy and Welfare

06/2020: Andrea Doucet, Ivana Dobrotić, Linda Haas and Lindsey McKay guest-edited a Special issue in International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Assessing and measuring the impacts of parental leave policies: intersectionality, policy entanglements, and conceptual and methodological complexities

10/2019: In their new paper, Ivana Dobrotić and Sonja Blum discuss how inclusive parental leave benefits in European countries are: Inclusiveness of parental-leave benefits in 21 European countries: Measuring social and gender inequalities in leave eligibility.