He we present publications of our COST Members on the topic of Paid Parental Leave and Social Sustainability.
2025
Castellanos-Serrano, C. & Recio Alcaide, A.
Dudová, Radka & Hana Hašková
Some babies are better than others. Selective Pronatalism, Ethnicity and Sexuality Politics behind the Iron Curtain. In Handbook of Sexuality in East Central Europe, ed. by Hadley Renkin, Agnieszka Kościańska, Kateřina Lišková. Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003204763-17
Escobedo, A., & Moss, P.
Parenting leave and gender in Spain: terminology, rationale and design. Community, Work & Family, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2025.2481861
Fernández-Cornejo, J.A., Castellanos-Serrano, C., Del Pozo-García, E., Palomo-Vadillo, M., Cáceres-Ruiz, J.I. and Escot, L.
“Do I feel entitled to it? Caring dads after the equalization of parental leave in Spain”, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 45 No. 3/4, pp. 346-364. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-08-2024-0406
Gurín, M., & Gornick, J.C.
Pushes and pulls of father leave policy reform: Unpacking divergent father leave reforms in the Czech Republic and South Korea. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy. FirstView, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/ics.2025.12
Hašková, H., & Dudová, R.
Intensive mothering—Different repertoires, same goal. Journal of Family Studies, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2025.2487004
Matysova, C.
The possibilities and pitfalls of adapting the Capability Approach to explore how gender norms are constitutive of parents’ care capabilities, Gender and Justice, 1(1), pp. 53–77. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1332/30333660Y2024D000000005
Mauerer, G.
Fatherhood Practices and Shared Parental Leave: Advancing Gender Equity in Parenting, Social Sciences
Valentova, M.
How do parents care together? Dyadic parental leave take-up strategies, wages and workplace characteristics. Work, Employment and Society, 39(1), 91-114. https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170241229281
Valentova, M., Maas, R., Koslowski, A.
Parental leave challenges from the perspective of employers: understanding sectors with low take-up by fathers. Gender, Work and Organization. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13259
2024
Bia, M., Blanco, G. and & Valentova, M.
The heterogeneous impact of parental leave take up on the wage distribution: Evidence from Luxembourg. Econometric Reviews, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/07474938.2024.2417167
Castellanos-Serrano, C., Escot, L., & Fernández-Cornejo, J. A.
Parental leave system design impacts on its gendered use: Paternity leave introduction in Spain. Family Relations, 73(1), 359–378. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12875
Čikić, J., Jovanović, T., Bilinović Rajačić, A., Mijatov Ladičorbić, M., Dragin, A., Košić, K.
Paid Parental Leave in Serbia: The Gender Perspective. Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Sociologia, 69(1), 109-129
Fernández-Cornejo, J. A., Castellanos-Serrano, C., Del Pozo-García, E., & Escot, L.
Parent capability: A factorial survey experiment on the duration of parental leave. Journal of European Social Policy, 34(4), 456-476. https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287241258598
Kosakowska-Berezecka, N., Sawicki, A. Celikkol, G., Bosson, J. K. Van Laar, C., Van Rossum, A., Best, D., Jurek, P., Besta, T., Olech, M., & Glick, P.
Does culture moderate gender stereotypes? Individualism predicts communal (but not agentic) prescriptions for men across 62 nations. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 16(4), 359-37. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506231221913
Krešić, B.
Work-Life Balance of Parents and Guardians and Its Application in the Republic of Slovenia – Do Employees from Bosnia and Herzegovina Have the Right to Parental Leave?
In: *Collection of Papers “Days of Family Law”*, Year XII, No. 12, Mostar, 2024
Krešić, B.
Exercise of the Right to Parental Leave – “A Comparison of Positive Regulations in the Republic of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina with the European Parliament and Council Directive 2019/1158”
In: *Collection of Papers of the Faculty of Law, University of Tuzla*, No. 2/24.
Matysova, C.
Exploring (in)congruence between academic employers and academic parents’ aspirations for, and enactment of, gender justice in relation to family leave, SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO, (168), pp. 71–87. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3280/SL2024-168004
Mijatov Ladičorbić, M., Jovanović, T., Dragin, A., Košić, K., Čikić, J., Bilinović Rajačić, A.
Paid paternity leave across Europe: Its importance for the tourism sector and influence of employment characteristics. Contemporary Trends in Tourism and Hospitality – CTTH 2024, Green Touism Transitions Abstract Book, 28-30 November 2024. University of Novi Sad: Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management.
Oates-Indruchová, L., Asztalos Morell, I., Dudová, R., Formánková, L., Geambașu, R., Hašková, H., Hawkins, M., & Vohlídalová, M.
What happened to my time during the COVID-19 lockdown? Parents’ subversive temporal regime strategies and their potential beyond the pandemic. European Journal of Women’s Studies, 31(4), 492-509. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068241297700
Recio Alcaide, A., Castellanos Serrano, C. & Andrés Jiménez, J.
Cómo incide el nuevo diseño de los permisos de nacimiento en la corresponsabilidad: Un análisis con registros administrativos de la Seguridad Social de 2016 a 2023. (How the new design of birth leave impacts co-responsibility: An analysis using Social Security administrative records from 2016 to 2023). Papeles de trabajo del Instituto de Estudios Fiscales. Serie economía. Nº 4, 2024, pp. 1-90.
Scheifele, C., Van Laar, C., & Steffens, M. C.
Predictors of expectant fathers’ parental leave-taking intentions before birth: Masculinity, fatherhood beliefs, and social support. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1247193. https://doi.org/10.3389/FPSYG.2024.1247193
Twamley, K.
Caring is Sharing? Couples navigating parental leave at the transition to parenthood London: UCL Press
Valentova, M., Amjahad, A., Genevois, A.S.
Parental Leave Take-up and its Intensity. Do Partners’ Workplace Characteristics Matter? Journal of Social Policy, 53(4), 1164-1186. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279422000885
Van Laar, C., Van Rossum, A., Kosakowska-Berezecka, N., Bongiorno, R., & Block, K.
MANdatory – why men need (and are needed for) gender equality progress. Frontiers in Psychology, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1263313
Van Rossum, A., Van Laar, C., Scheepers, D.
Advancing the health and wellbeing of boys and men: Lessons from the social cure and curse framework. Social Issues and Policy Review. e12107. https://doi.org/10.1111/sipr.12107
2023
Amjahad, A., Valentova, M., Maas, R.
How Do Employers Respond to a Policy Reform of Parental Leave? A Focus on Fathers and Companies From Economy Sectors With Traditionally Lower Take-Up Rates. Journal of Family Issues, 44(12), 3089-3116.
Arnalds, Á., & Duvander, A.-Z.
Arranging childcare in two Nordic countries: A comparison of ECEC start in Iceland and Sweden. JFR – Journal of Family Research, 35, 471-488. https://doi.org/10.20377/jfr-896
Duvander, Ann-Zofie, & Koslowski, Alison
Access to parenting leaves for recent immigrants: a cross-national view of policy architecture in Europe. Genus 79(8) https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-023-00187-9
Koslowski A, O’Brien M, Twamley K.
The Development of an international field: the case of parenting leaves. In Cameron C, Koslowski A, Lamont A & Moss, P. (eds) (2023). Social Research for our Times: Thomas Coram Research Unit past, present and future. UCL Press
Malamitsi-Puchner, A., Laura Addati, Guðný Björk Eydal, Despina D. Briana, Flavia Bustreo, Gian Carlo Di Renzo, O’Brien, M., Mark Hanson, Neena Modi
Paid leave to support parenting-A neglected tool to improve societal well-being and prosperity Acta Paediatrica Volume 112, Issue 10 pp. 2021-2257 https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.16929
Olsson, M., Van Grootel, S., Block, K., Schuster, C., Meeussen, L., Van Laar, C., Schmader, T…. &. Cheryan, S.
Gender gap in parental leave intentions: Evidence from 37 countries. Political Psychology, 44(6), 1163-1192. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12880