France: gender equality a pipe dream?

Fagnani, Jeanne; Math, Antoine

doi:10.1332/policypress/9781847420671.003.0007

Cited by 9 publications

(9 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Perhaps as both result and consequence, Anglo policymakers pay relatively little direct attention to the question of how care can be redistributed in the wake of the economic emergence of women, regarding it as a private responsibility and a matter for private negotiation within households (O’Connor, Orloff, & Shaver, 1999). In other countries, including France and the Nordic social democracies, there is more public acknowledgment of the important contribution that care makes to society, and raising children is viewed as a shared social concern as well as a personal responsibility (Fagnani & Boyer, 2007; Morgan, 2003; Neyer, 2006). There are generous mandated parental leaves, paid working hours are short by international standards, and parental care is supplemented by state provision of child care and early education services (Leira, 2002; Morgan, 2005; Morgan & Zippel, 2003; Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development [OECD], 2007).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Parenthood, Gender and Work‐Family Time in the United States, Australia, Italy, France, and Denmark

Craig¹,

Mullan²

2010

J of Marriage and Family

354

275

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Research has associated parenthood with greater daily time commitments for fathers and mothers than for childless men and women, and with deeper gendered division of labor in households. How do these outcomes vary across countries with different average employment hours, family and social policies, and cultural attitudes to family care provision? Using nationally representative time-use data from the United States, Australia, Italy, France, and Denmark (N = 5,337), we compare the paid and unpaid work of childless partnered adults and parents of young children in each country. Couples were matched (except for the United States). We found parents have higher, less gender-equal workloads than nonparents in all five countries, but overall time commitments and the difference by parenthood status were most pronounced in the United States and Australia.Parents of young children are among the most time stressed of all demographic groups (Jacobs & Gerson, 2004). Having children is a major lifecourse event that alters how men and women live and how they can allocate their time. Money is required to support children, and there is

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Parenthood, Gender and Work‐Family Time in the United States, Australia, Italy, France, and Denmark

Craig¹,

Mullan²

2010

J of Marriage and Family

354

275

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…16 Over the last few decades, the progressive introduction of measures and schemes to support 'working mothers' and the modernization of child rearing norms have coalesced to justify in the eyes of couples, and more particularly women, both having children and being present on the labour market. At the same time, the right of fathers to make a greater commitment to family life has made its mark on the social and political debate, as can be observed from the introduction in 2002 of two weeks' statutory paternity leave, a measure which has had a strong symbolic impact and has met with significant success (Fagnani & Math, 2009). …”

Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In February 2009 President Sarkozy announced a reform of the parental leave scheme (Fagnani & Math, 2009). Taking into consideration the detrimental effects that extended leave can have on women's professional careers, he proposed to reduce the duration of the leave from three years to only one.…”

Section: Recent Decisions Made At the Expense Of Quality In Childcarementioning

confidence: 99%

The Predicament of Childcare Policy in France: What Is at Stake?

Fagnani¹,

Math

2011

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

France is well known for providing working parents with formal childcare arrangements and generous benefits aimed at reducing costs for families. Currently, and despite a general tightening of purse strings in the social security administration, childcare policy has continued to see increases in funding and remains a growth area in the French welfare state. Yet reforms introduced periodically since the mid-1980s illustrate clearly the growing influence employment policies are having on childcare provisions. For all the rhetoric devoted to the promotion of 'freedom of choice' for parents in the childcare sector evidence suggests a different set of priorities. In reality, the impetus to increase the number of options for the placement of children in supervised care derives from the desire to bring more mothers into the workforce while at the same time satisfying the increasing demands placed on employees through the development of flexible work schedules and in particular non-standard work hours.

show abstract

“…However, in 1994, the APE's coverage was increased and the allowance was made available starting with the second child. Moreover, it was made compatible with part‐time employment (Fagnani, ; Fagnani & Math, ; Morel ; Revillard, ).…”

Section: The Family Policies Implemented In France and Belgium Since mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the other hand, those workers who benefitted from the APE were treated as employed even during the leave. However, if unemployed persons profited from the scheme, they were removed from the register of those actively seeking work during the period of leave, which had the effect of automatically reducing the unemployment rate, as well as the labour market participation rate (Fagnani & Math, ).…”

Section: Channels Of Transmissionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of ‘free choice’: Family reforms of France and Belgium, a synthetic control analysis

Podestà

2017

Int J Soc Welfare

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Between the 1980s and the late 1990s, France and Belgium introduced two long‐leave schemes and several measures to support childcare at home. Although this change was presented under the umbrella of the ‘free‐choice‐for‐women’ rhetoric, it moved both countries towards a more familistic model. To evaluate the impact of this reform phase on female labour force participation, the present study employed the synthetic control method. This approach made it possible to contrast the evolution of the French and Belgian female labour force participation rates, observed in consequence of the implementation of the policies under investigation, with the corresponding evolution of the same rates reconstructed in the absence of such family programmes. The results of this exercise suggest that if France and Belgium had not undergone this policy treatment, their female labour market participation rates would have been higher than those actually measured. Key Practitioner Message: • Combining long‐leave schemes with low incentives to support employment of a childminder obstructs female labour force participation.

show abstract

France: gender equality a pipe dream?

Cited by 9 publications

References 0 publications

Parenthood, Gender and Work‐Family Time in the United States, Australia, Italy, France, and Denmark

Parenthood, Gender and Work‐Family Time in the United States, Australia, Italy, France, and Denmark

The Predicament of Childcare Policy in France: What Is at Stake?

The impact of ‘free choice’: Family reforms of France and Belgium, a synthetic control analysis

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About