From powerful to powerless fathers: gender equality in Danish family policies on parenthood

2009 ◽  
pp. 134-148
Author(s):  
Charlotte Andersen ◽  
Anna-Birte Ravn
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
Danish Family

scholarly journals Challenges for child support schemes: Accounting for shared care and complex families

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elke Claessens ◽  
Dimitri Mortelmans
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Child Support ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Shared Care ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
Policy Models ◽  
Sole Custody ◽  
Traditional Approaches

The increasing prevalence of shared care and complex families is challenging traditional approaches to child support determination based on the ‘classic’ two-parent, sole custody, post-divorce family. This article provides a comparative analysis of how these challenges are being addressed in the child support schemes of eight different countries and evaluates these approaches in the light of family policies on gender equality in family care. We find great diversity in the incorporation of shared care and complex families, which is not clearly connected to existing ideal typical policy models on gendered family care. However, child support schemes, at least partially, seem to translate into assumptions concerning gender roles and general policy aims concerning gender equality. In order to better understand how countries accommodate the challenges arising from the modern post-separation family, gender equality seems a vital consideration to take into account.

scholarly journals Managers’ views on employees’ parental leave: Problems and solutions within different institutional logics

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja H Nordberg
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Career Progression ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Central Values ◽  
Problems And Solutions

An examination of managers’ perspectives on employees’ parental leave rights is presented, drawing on qualitative interviews with 34 managers in the Norwegian police and in the legal profession. The aim of the article is to explore how managers approach employees’ parental leave within different institutional logics and how their approach relates to gendered norms of good parenthood. According to these norms, parental leave is used fully, but mothers take the main share of the leave. The findings show that the managers do not necessarily perceive parental leave as a problem. However, the practical solutions the managers propose to possible challenges give important clues about what parental leave entails within the frame of different institutional logics. The managers’ concerns reveal that parental leave rights may clash with central values, goals and strategies in an organisation. Within the logics of the police and private law firms, work is more individualised and thus perceived as more challenging than in the public sector law offices. When the solution suggested by the managers is for individual employees to adapt their leave, gendered norms come forward. However, the analysis also shows that gendered parenthood norms play out differently with the different institutional logics. With these insights, the analysis shows how policy regulations and local workplace contexts interact in shaping the consequences of family policies for gender equality in wages and career progression

scholarly journals Gender equality and family policies in the Scandinavian countries context (Sweden model)

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 84-95
Author(s):  
Kifayat Aghayeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
Current Trends

Over the last decades, the Scandinavian countries have been engaged to modernize the conditions in families, by achieving gender equality. The path to gender equality at work, in the labor market and in families, however, continues to be strewn with obstacles that need to be overcome. The analysis of current trends in the region still yields a mixed picture of complicated question of gender equality in both families and the labor market.

scholarly journals Guaranteed or conditional child maintenance? Examining the 2016 reform in Sweden

2021 ◽  
pp. 026101832110365
Author(s):  
Stina Fernqvist ◽  
Marie Sépulchre
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
Normal Families ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
State Support ◽  
Child Maintenance

Family policies promoting gender equality and parents’ shared responsibility for their children tend to assume good parental collaboration post separation. However, this assumption obscures the reality of conflict and intimate partner violence (IPV) in some separated families. Focusing on Sweden, this article examines the 2016 reform which implies that the state ceases acting as an intermediary to organise child maintenance unless ‘special reasons’, including the experience of IPV, are invoked. Thus, the Swedish guaranteed child maintenance scheme became conditional. Drawing on interviews with resident parents and case officers at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (SSIA), this article suggests that the reform increases the vulnerability of resident parents in several ways. Moreover, the ‘special reasons’ exemption creates a new distinction between ‘violent’ and ‘normal’ families, which case workers struggle to administer, and which leads to a withdrawal of state support for many families.

Gender regimes and gender equality measures in Central Eastern European Countries post-accession: the case of Hungary and Poland

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Velluti
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
Central Eastern Europe ◽  
Gender Regimes ◽  
Central Eastern ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Eastern European Countries

The paper is set to examine the state of gender equality in Central Eastern European Countries (CEECs) since accession to the European Union (EU) following the two enlargements in 2004 and 2007, which saw 10 CEECs join the EU. In this context, the paper addresses some implications of transformation, which challenge gender regimes across CEECs. The paper looks at the nature of the policies adopted to ensure gender equality in Central Eastern Europe (CEE) and, in particular, using Hungary's and Poland's family policies as a case study, it evaluates whether EU gender equality measures have had an impact on gender equality and justice in CEE and, more generally, whether they have led to new gender equality paradigms.

Single Motherhood and Life Satisfaction in Comparative Perspective: Do Institutional and Cultural Contexts Explain the Life Satisfaction Penalty for Single Mothers?

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 2061-2084 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Pollmann-Schult
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Single Mothers ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
Single Motherhood ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Supportive Family ◽  
Family Benefits ◽  
Using Data

Life satisfaction research regularly identifies single mothers as relatively unhappy. This comparative study refines this view by assessing how broader institutional and cultural contexts shape the life satisfaction of single mothers. Using data from the European Social Survey for 24 European countries, this study shows that generous family benefits, extensive child care provision, and high levels of gender equality are associated with smaller life satisfaction penalties for single mothers, whereas societal attitudes toward single motherhood are not related to the life satisfaction of single mothers. Overall, the life satisfaction gap between single mothers and childless singles is substantially smaller than that between single mothers and partnered mothers. Moreover, single women residing in countries with supportive family policies and high levels of gender equality report similar levels of life satisfaction than childless singles. This latter finding challenges the notion that single motherhood inevitably reduces women’s life satisfaction.

scholarly journals QATARI FEMALE MANAGERS IN A WORLD OF PATRIARCHY

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 215-225
Author(s):  
Noora Ahmed Lari
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
The State ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
Evaluation And Monitoring ◽  
The Impact

Purpose: The State of Qatar has widely sought to include women in public life and has implemented several policies in order to improve gender equality in the workforce and fair distribution of development benefits. This study establishes how far the State of Qatar has achieved the equality of women in the workplace, since the initiation of new reform policies and agendas of modernisation in 1995. Qatari women in leadership positions still face major challenges in relation to cultural limitations and organisational constraints; these areas need to be further developed to improve the degree of gender equality and close the wide gap between the two genders in terms of economic rights and equal opportunities in the labour force. Methodology: This paper uses semi-structured interviews which were conducted with twenty-five women aged all of whom held senior management positions in a range of civil society and public sector organisations in Qatar at the time of the interview. The twenty-five participants who participated in the study ranged in age from 34 to 61 years. Main Findings: The findings suggest that Qatari women are helped by two forces: the support they are getting from the ruling family and the impact of reforms and social change in surrounding regions. Indeed, the slow pace of social reform is one of the common complaints of progressives. Implications/Applications: Therefore, focused, procedural steps should be taken to enforce adherence to frameworks by governmental institutions and to amend existing legislation to tackle the challenges faced by women. These steps include implementing some social policy recommendations in terms of establishing and funding women’s civil society organisations, integrating an evaluation and monitoring system in governmental organisations, promoting work/family policies, and initiating a feminisation policy in government organisations.

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