… measures. Legal measure: the introduction of paternity leave. Fathers/equivalent second parents will be able to take at least 10 working days of paternity leave around the time of a child’s birth, which will be … measure: strengthening the existing right to 4 months of parentalleave by making 2 of these months non-transferable …
… and will probably not be paid nor entitled to paid sick leave. These people are likely to have difficulty paying for … is always around. It can also be harder for women to leave their abuser once the crisis is over, due to the …
… men are most disadvantaged and most often left out of the parental-leave schemes. In the light of the directive on work–life balance for parents and carers, parental-leave policies are becoming increasingly more …
… linked to the design of national public policies, such as parentalleave, which provide highly varied employee entitlements … Section 9.2). For example, parents in Sweden can use their parental-leave entitlements to shorten their working hours …
… by parents and by well-qualified and well-compensated non-parental caregivers’ (Wright, Gornick, & Meyers, 2009). … impact of a variety of family-friendly measures (including parentalleave, flexible working arrangements, childcare provision, …
… Parental-leave conditions may help or hinder gender equality The … 2010). In this context, entitlements to job-protected leave after childbirth have become important policy measures … the most common being maternity leave, paternity leave, parentalleave and leave to care for children who are ill …
… and services to families, job protection provided by leave policies, public infrastructure and the overall … example, there should not be a care gap between the end of parental-leave provision and publicly subsidised high-quality … the gender inequalities that are caused and reproduced by parental-leave policy rules. While the parentalleave …
… gender equality is a special focus of this year’s Index. Parentalleave is one of the important policy measures to support … the EU, 28 % of women and 20 % of men are ineligible for parentalleave. Access to affordable and good quality …