Family policies and fathers’ working hours: cross-national differences in the paternal labour supply

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“…Organisational culture, policies and line-manager attitudes continue to position fathers as 'instrumental providers' rather than as parents with child-care responsibilities, constraining their access to alternative ways of combining work and care (13). However, international, comparative analyses M A N U S C R I P T A C C E P T E D ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT 19 indicate that fathers' patterns of parental leave-taking, as an example, are responsive to policies particularly those that target fathers (rather than 'parents') specifically (68,74).…”

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