Fathers on Leave Alone in Quebec (Canada): The Case of Innovative, Subversive and Activist Fathers!

Tremblay, Diane‐Gabrielle; Dodeler, Nadia Lazzari

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“…The remaining Ontario fathers were reluctant to ask for leave due to fear of repercussions from their employers. Moreover, contrary to expectations, none of the fathers in Quebec took shared parental leave, also citing workplace cultures that discouraged leaves (Tremblay & Dodeler, ). Thus, in leaving workplace culture untouched, parental leave policy, especially in the ROC, reinforces and reproduces the gendered division of labor within households (see also McKay et al, ).…”

Section: Transition To Motherhood: Stories Of Parental Leavementioning

confidence: 85%

“…Indeed, McKay et al (, p. 552) found that only 64% of mothers had access to benefits under the federal program, compared with nearly 90% of mothers in Quebec. It also creates incentives for fathers to participate in caregiving, a program that was established with the explicit goal of challenging the gendered division of care (Tremblay & Dodeler, ). Almost 87% of fathers participate in the program (MacNaull, ).…”

Section: Transition To Motherhood and Leave Policy: Maternity Parentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some have argued that the Quebec model is better than the federal program, by not only offering more generous benefit rates but also including fathers and those who are marginalized in and by the labor market (Doucet, McKay, & Tremblay, ; McKay et al, ; Robson, ) . It has also been heralded as a program that encourages gender equality, rather than simply a reconciliation of work and family (Mahon & Brennan, ; Tremblay & Dodeler, ).…”

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“…Tako je vjerojatnije da će očevi koristiti dopuste u javnom nego u privatnom sektoru (npr., Bygren i Duvander, 2006;Whitehouse, Diamond i Baird, 2007;Geisler i Kreyenfeld, 2011). U privatnom sektoru očevi također rade ustupke te prilagođavaju korištenje dopusta činjenici da rade na projektu ili ih nema tko zamijeniti na radnom mjestu (pomiču planirani početak ili kraj dopusta), povremeno rade od kuće, koriste dopuste u nepunom radnom vremenu ili rade jedan dan u tjednu (Duvander, Haas i Thalberg, 2017;Tremblay i Lazzari Dodeler, 2017;Valarino, 2017;Wall i Leitão, 2017).…”

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“…Važnim se čimbenikom za dijeljenje dopusta pokazala i majčina motiviranost i želja te njezina potreba za povratkom na posao (Duvander, Haas i Thalberg, 2017;Nakazato, 2017;Tremblay i Lazzari Dodeler, 2017). Majčino zaposlenje ima središnju ulogu u tome kako će partneri raspodijeliti dopust u Finskoj (Lammi-Taskula, 2017), dok se kod polovine ispitanika u Španjolskoj pokazalo da očevi ne bi ni išli sami na dopust da narav zaposlenosti majke nije uvjetovala takvu raspodjelu dopusta (Meil, Romero-Balsas i Rogero-García, 2017).…”

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Why are Paternity Leaves and Father’s Quotas Important? A Comparative Overview of Father’s Leave Schemes in European Countries and Factors and Outcomes of Father’s Leave Use

Dobrotić

Varga

2018

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Fathering, parental leave, impacts, and gender equality: what/how are we measuring?

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McKay

2020

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PurposeThis research article explores several questions about assessing the impacts of fathers' parental leave take up and gender equality. We ask: How does the conceptual and contextual specificity of care and equality shape what we focus on, and how, when we study parental leave policies and their impacts? What and how are we measuring?Design/methodology/approachThe article is based on a longitudinal qualitative research study on families with fathers who had taken parental leave in two Canadian provinces (Ontario and Québec), which included interviews with 26 couples in the first stage (25 mother/father couples and one father/father couple) and with nine couples a decade later. Guided by Margaret Somers' historical sociology of concept formation, we explore the concepts of care and equality (and their histories, networks, and narratives) and how they are taken up in parental leave research. We also draw on insights from three feminist scholars who have made major contributions to theoretical intersections between care, work, equality, social protection policies, and care deficits: Nancy Fraser, Joan Williams, and Martha Fineman.FindingsThe relationship between fathers' leave-taking and gender equality impacts is a complex, non-linear entanglement shaped by the specificities of state and employment policies and by how these structure parental eligibility for leave benefits, financial dimensions of leave-taking (including wage replacement rates for benefits), childcare possibilities/limitations and related financial dimensions for families, masculine work norms in workplaces, and intersections of gender and social class. Overall, we found that maximizing both parental leave time and family income in order to sustain good care for their children (through paid and unpaid leave time, followed by limited and expensive childcare services) was articulated as a more immediate concern to parents than were issues of gender equality. Our research supports the need to draw closer connections between parental leave, childcare, and workplace policies to better understand how these all shape parental leave decisions and practices and possible gender equality outcomes.Research limitations/implicationsThe article is based on a small and fairly homogenous Canadian research sample and thus calls for more research to be done on diverse families, with attention to possible conceptual diversity arising from these sites.Practical implicationsThis research calls for greater attention to: the genealogies of, and relations between, the concepts of care, equality, and subjectivity that guide parental leave research and policy; to the historical specificity of models like the Universal Caregiver model; and to the need for new models and conceptual configurations that can guide research on care, equality, and parental leave policies in current global contexts of neoliberal capitalism.Originality/valueWe call for a move toward thinking about care, not only as care time, but as responsibilities, which can be partly assessed through the stories people tell about how they negotiate and navigate care, domestic work, and paid work responsibilities in specific contexts and conditions across time. We also advocate for gender equality concepts that attend to how families navigate restrictive parental leave and childcare policies and how broader socio-economic inequalities arise partly from state policies underpinned by a concept of liberal autonomous subjects rather than relational subjects who face moments of vulnerability and inter-dependence across the life course.

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Fathers on Leave Alone in Quebec (Canada): The Case of Innovative, Subversive and Activist Fathers!

Cited by 12 publications

References 16 publications

I am more than a mom: Stories of parental leave during the transition to motherhood in Canada

I am more than a mom: Stories of parental leave during the transition to motherhood in Canada

Why are Paternity Leaves and Father’s Quotas Important? A Comparative Overview of Father’s Leave Schemes in European Countries and Factors and Outcomes of Father’s Leave Use

Fathering, parental leave, impacts, and gender equality: what/how are we measuring?

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