Fathers became more involved in the often invisible domestic work needed to keep family life running smoothly.
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Mothers still bear the majority of care work and fathers are still largely excluded or pushed to take unpaid leave.
New research using Canadian workplace data finds that men who take six months or more of parental leave are seen as warmer and more leadership-ready by colleagues.
The policy amendment has been applauded for moving towards workplace equality. But it still raises some concerns in relation to people with disabilities.
Reforms should account for the specific challenges that parental leave poses to smaller organisations.
Many male leaders say they value gender equity. But their ideas about how to achieve it don’t always line up with women’s.
Parents that have explored shared parental leave have found the policy and process incredibly complex.
Many fathers think neither the UK government nor employers view their participation in childcare as important.
More men are keen to find the best balance when it comes to work and family but there are still significant barriers facing many fathers.
Karina Gould’s parental leave is similar to that of many Canadians. Yet there are key differences, and they offer lessons on how parental leave could be redesigned to help more Canadian parents.
If more Canadian fathers are to harness the benefits of parental leave and remote work, we need to design employment and care policies in ways that recognize every family’s unique needs.
Shared parental leave requires mothers to give up some of their maternity leave.
In the Japanese workplace, women face discrimination, restrictive behaviour and appearance codes and a lower glass ceiling than elsewhere. Only a profound cultural shift will change that.
Current parental leave schemes reinforce old gender stereotypes and the pay gap between women and men. Overseas experience shows better targeted leave for new fathers helps everyone.
This important benefit does more than just help parents in terms of dollars and cents.
Polls have consistently found robust support for this benefit, with a growing share of the public approving of paid time off for dads.
If the plan is fully phased in as proposed, workers could get up to $4,000 a month for a total of 12 weeks in paid leave to care for a newborn, another loved one or themselves within 10 years.
Women and their careers benefit when men are allowed – and encouraged – by their employers to do more caregiving.
Single mothers need more of a break than they get under current laws.
Whatever the eventual impact on women’s candidacies post-pandemic, COVID-19 has the potential to shock the system, upending or reinforcing existing gender imbalances in political power.
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