Fathers on Leave Alone in Norway: Changes and Continuities
In 1993 Norway was the first country to introduce a parental leave scheme exclusively earmarked for fathers, and some of the other Nordic countries have later followed suit. In the course of the 20 years that Norway has had the father’s quota it has been
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Margaret O'Brien Karin Wall Editors
Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality Fathers on Leave Alone
Life Course Research and Social Policies Volume 6
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Life course research has been developing quickly these last decades for good reasons. Life course approaches focus on essential questions about individuals’ trajectories, longitudinal analyses, cross-fertilization across disciplines like lifespan psychology, developmental social psychology, sociology of the life course, social demography, socio-economics, social history. Life course is also at the crossroads of several fields of specialization like family and social relationships, migration, education, professional training and employment, and health. This Series invites academic scholars to present theoretical, methodological, and empirical advances in the analysis of the life course, and to elaborate on possible implications for society and social policies applications.
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Margaret O’Brien • Karin Wall Editors
Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality Fathers on Leave Alone
Editors Margaret O’Brien Thomas Coram Research Unit University College London London, United Kingdom
Karin Wall Institute of Social Sciences University of Lisbon Lisbon, Portugal
ISSN 2211-7776 ISSN 2211-7784 (electronic) Life Course Research and Social Policies ISBN 978-3-319-42968-7 ISBN 978-3-319-42970-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-42970-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016954922 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2017. This book is published open access. Open Access This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. This work is subject to copyright. All commercial rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names,
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