Sustainability@Leave
CA21150

Sustainability@Leave | COST Action CA21150

Parental Leave Policies and Social Sustainability

The Action aims to advance and disseminate research and knowledge about the significance of paid parental leave (PPL) for the social sustainability of societies.

About the Sustainability@Leave Action

The Action aims to advance and disseminate research and knowledge about the significance of paid parental leave (PPL) for the social sustainability of societies. Our aim is to set the scene for future PPL research from the new perspective of social sustainability while making the field more coherent across disciplines and beyond academia.

The main challenges are to build the network, identify and fill gaps in PPL research, develop a future-oriented and cross-disciplinary PPL terminology, and facilitate future research by closing the PPL data gap.

Five Working Groups (WGs) will be established to focus on:

  1. The development of a theoretical framework;
  2. the identification of social inequalities through PPL policies;
  3. the relevance of PPL for child development;
  4. providing a future-oriented PPL terminology and
  5. the expansion of PPL data.

Sustainability@Leave in Numbers

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Latest Updates

Paid parenting leave plays a crucial role in supporting families, promoting gender equality, and enabling parents to balance work and care. Yet, as leave...
Mapping the Unknown: Research Gaps in Parenting Leave Inequality Research in Europe is a new report by WG2 and edited by Johanna Lammi-Taskula and...
We adopted slight changes to the the programme of our Open Online Course on Parenting Leave Policies & Inequalities. Watch the past lectures and...
We’re pleased to announce the launch of our new Open Online Course “Parenting Leave Policies and Inequalities”, starting 12 November 2025 and running until...
We are pleased to announce several important updates regarding the leadership and institutional structure of our COST Action.