After the Male Breadwinner Model? Childcare Services and the Division of Labor in European Countries

Ciccia, Rossella; Bleijenbergh, I.L.

doi:10.1093/sp/jxu002

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“…However, despite their geographical proximity and shared reputation for high female employment, their family policies have not been systematically compared with those in an established cluster of the Nordic welfare state regime. Few earlier studies that include this group report contradictory findings, either separating the Nordics from the Baltics (Ciccia and Bleijenbergh ) or grouping Estonia into the Nordic cluster but not Latvia (Lohmann and Zagel ). Interestingly, however, the Nordic states but also Lithuania and Estonia are considered to have the best parental leave policies in the world (Waller ).…”

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Work and Care Opportunities under Different Parental Leave Systems: Gender and Class Inequalities in Northern Europe

Javornik

Kurowská

2017

Soc Policy Adm

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This article analyses public parental leave in eight northern European countries, and assesses its opportunity potential to facilitate equal parental involvement and employment, focusing on gender and income opportunity gaps. It draws on Sen's capability and Weber's ideal‐types approach to analyze policies across countries. It offers the ideal parental leave architecture, one which minimizes the policy‐generated gender and class inequality in parents’ opportunities to share parenting and keep their jobs, thus providing real opportunities for different groups of individuals to achieve valued functionings as parents. Five policy indicators are created using benchmarking and graphical analysis. Two sources of opportunity inequality are considered: the leave system as the opportunity and constraint structure, and the socio‐economic contexts as the conversion factors. The article produces a comprehensive overview of national leave policies, visually presenting leave policy across countries. Considering policy capability ramifications beyond gender challenges a family policy‐cluster idea and the Nordic‐Baltic divide. It demonstrates that leave systems in northern Europe are far from homogenous; they diverge in the degree to which they create real opportunities for parents and children as well as in key policy dimensions through which these opportunities are created.

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Work and Care Opportunities under Different Parental Leave Systems: Gender and Class Inequalities in Northern Europe

Javornik

Kurowská

2017

Soc Policy Adm

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“…By 2008 in comparison to France the UK still had far less generous childcare and leave provisions: there was no support for childcare for the under threes was limited as was state-funded early-years education, this being provided in the private rather than the state-education sector. Indeed, between 2005 and 2009 the average number of weekly hours spent in formal childcare for children under three was 28.9 in France but only 13.8 in the UK (Ciccia & Bleijenbergh, 2014).…”

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Change in work-family reconciliation policy in France and the UK since 2008: the influence of economic crisis and austerity

Windebank

2017

J. int. comp. soc. policy

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This article compares work-family reconciliation policy since 2008 in two contrasting case-study countries, namely France and the UK, and investigates how post-2008 economic circumstances and austerity measures have interacted with other policy drivers to influence the extent and shape of change in this policy area in these countries. The article demonstrates that work-family reconciliation policy in both countries has been resilient in the face of economic and budgetary problems and progress has been made albeit from different starting points and in path-dependent ways to “degender” parental leave and to improve the affordability of and access to childcare particularly for those on lower incomes. However, it also reveals that in both countries, despite partisan consensus on the need to further develop policy, a combination of economic constraints and the opposition to reform of key social and political actors has put a brake on change.

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“…Rowlingson and Millar, 2002;Skevik, 2005), albeit less so in Finland and Norway (e.g. Ciccia and Bleijenbergh, 2014).…”

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Beyond the ‘train-first’/‘work-first’ dichotomy: How welfare states help or hinder maternal employment

Kowalewska

2016

Journal of European Social Policy

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After the Male Breadwinner Model? Childcare Services and the Division of Labor in European Countries

Cited by 124 publications

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Work and Care Opportunities under Different Parental Leave Systems: Gender and Class Inequalities in Northern Europe

Work and Care Opportunities under Different Parental Leave Systems: Gender and Class Inequalities in Northern Europe

Change in work-family reconciliation policy in France and the UK since 2008: the influence of economic crisis and austerity

Beyond the ‘train-first’/‘work-first’ dichotomy: How welfare states help or hinder maternal employment

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