@misc{10481/80758,
year = {2023},
month = {1},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/80758},
abstract = {Despite global commitments and efforts, a gender-based
division of paid and unpaid work persists. To
identify how psychological factors, national policies, and the broader sociocultural context contribute
to this inequality, we assessed parental-leave
intentions in young adults (18–30
years old) planning to
have children (N = 13,942; 8,880 identified as women; 5,062 identified as men) across 37 countries that
varied in parental-leave
policies and societal gender equality. In all countries, women intended to take
longer leave than men. National parental-leave
policies and women’s political representation partially
explained cross-national
variations in the gender gap. Gender gaps in leave intentions were paradoxically
larger in countries with more gender-egalitarian
parental-leave
policies (i.e., longer leave available to
both fathers and mothers). Interestingly, this cross-national
variation in the gender gap was driven by
cross-national
variations in women’s (rather than men’s) leave intentions. Financially generous leave
and gender-egalitarian
policies (linked to men’s higher uptake in prior research) were not associated with
leave intentions in men. Rather, men’s leave intentions were related to their individual gender attitudes.
Leave intentions were inversely related to career ambitions. The potential for existing policies to foster
gender equality in paid and unpaid work is discussed.},
organization = {SSHRC Insight Development Grant	430-2018-00361
SSHRC Insight Grant	435-2014-1247
SSHRC doctoral fellowship},
organization = {Basic Research Program at HSE University, RF},
organization = {UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)},
organization = {Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)	ES/S00274X/1},
organization = {State Research Agency	PID2019--111549GB-I00/10.13039/501100011033},
organization = {Guangdong 13th-five Philosophy and Social Science Planning Project	GD20CXL06},
organization = {National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)	31600912
research infrastructure HUME Lab Experimental Humanities Laboratory, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University},
organization = {Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)	P1ZHP1_184553
P500PS_206546
P2LAP1_194987},
organization = {Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (ANID/FONDAP)	15130009
Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research (ANID/FONDAP)	15110006},
organization = {SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship	756-2017-0249},
organization = {Slovak Research and Development Agency project	APVV 20--0319},
organization = {Canada Research Chairs
CGIAR	CRC 152583},
organization = {Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)	140649},
organization = {Ministry of Research and Innovation, Ontario	152655},
publisher = {Wiley},
keywords = {Parental leave},
keywords = {Gender},
keywords = {Cross-national},
keywords = {Inequality},
keywords = {Childcare},
title = {Gender Gap in Parental Leave Intentions: Evidence from 37 Countries},
doi = {10.1111/pops.12880},
author = {Olsson, Maria I. T. and Lemus Martín, Soledad De and Perandrés, Ana},
}