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Sustainability@Leave at the 21st ESPAnet Annual Conference 2023

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Our members Ann-Zofie Duvander, Alison Koslowski and Gerardo Meil organised a session “Comparative family policy research with special attention to paid parental leave and early childhood education and care (ECEC) policies” at the 21st ESPAnet Annual Conference in Warsaw with these presentations:

  • Birgit Pfau-Effinger
    • Theorizing work-childcare behaviour in incoherent contexts of culture and institutions
  • Dorota Szelewa, Caroline de la Porte, Brigitte Pircher, Zhen Jie Im
    • Father-specific parental leave via the EU’s work-life balance directive: equalising parental social rights?
  • Tobias Böger, Helen Seitzer
    • Caring Countries?! Mapping the Diffusion of Early Childhood Care Entitlements
  • Johanna Lammi-Taskula, Johanna Närvi, Merita Mesiäislehto, Sanni Välimäki
    • Has the use of ECEC services become more or less equal in Europe over time?
  • Dimitrina Ivanova, Anna Kurowska
    • Who gets to care? Measuring generosity and inclusiveness of European care policies using fuzzy clustering
  • Emanuele Ferragina, Edoardo Magalini
    • Maternal Employment and Childcare Use from an Intersectional Perspective: Stratification in Five Family Policy Models
  • Marie Valentova, Amparo Nagore Garcia, Anissa Amjahad, Anne-Sophie Genevois, Kristell Leduc
    • The Interplay of Family Policies: The Crowding-out Effect of the Cash-for-Care Policy on Parental Leave Take-up

Other members participated as well:

  • Alison Koslowski, Ivana Dobrotić and Sonja Blum
    • The Oxford Handbook of Family Policy Over the Life Course
  • Anna Karmann
    • Causal effects of childcare take-up on the division of labor within families in Germany
  • Anna Kurowska
    • Do women work more when the employment conditions of their partner worsen? The role of welfare policies
  • Ásdís Arnalds
    • Paid parental leave in Iceland: Degenderizing parental practices
  • Brigitte Pircher
    • Father-specific parental leave via the EU’s work-life balance directive: equalising parental social rights?
  • Cassandra Engeman
    • Why do some countries promote fathers’ caregiving more than others? Comparative politics of paid parenting leave
  • Gerardo Meil
    • Gender neutral terminology in paid parental leave and take up patterns. Lessons from the Spanish experience.
  • Guðný Björk Eydal
    • Paid parental leave in Iceland: Degenderizing parental practices
    • Children and the aims of paid parental leave legislation: examples from European countries
  • Ivana Dobrotić
    • Employment precarity and parenting leaves in Croatia
  • Johanna Lammi-Taskula, Johanna Närvi
    • Flexible working times and places and fathers’ changing practices of childcare
  • Martin Gurín
    • Understanding differences in family policy development: under the magnifying glass of policy transfer
  • Merve Uzunalioglu
    • Does fathers’ uptake of parental leave lead to greater gender equality in the division of domestic labour?: A conceptual review and reflection of the literature
  • Pedro Romero Balsas
    • Gender neutral terminology in paid parental leave and take up patterns. Lessons from the Spanish experience.
  • Thordis Reimer
    • Children and the aims of paid parental leave legislation: examples from European countries

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