The Impact of Taking Parental Leave on Fathers’ Participation In Childcare And Relationships With Children: Lessons from Sweden

By L. Haas, Philip O. Hwang. 2008

306 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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In Gender Studies

1. Ann‐Zofie Duvander
2. Mats Johansson
3. M. Verloo
4. M. Bünning
5. Rossella Ciccia
6. D. Riggs
7. G. Kaufman

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Rossella Ciccia
2. M. Verloo
3. Ann‐Zofie Duvander
4. M. Bünning
5. Mats Johansson
6. G. Kaufman

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Ann‐Zofie Duvander
2. Mats Johansson
3. M. Verloo
4. M. Bünning
5. Rossella Ciccia
6. G. Kaufman

Citations in the corpus

• Reserving Time for Daddy: The Consequences of Fathers’ Quotas (2019, unknown): “, 2010) and improves men’s satisfaction with contact with their children (Haas and Hwang, 2008), but also may promote gender equality.”
• Hegemonic masculinity versus a caring masculinity: Implications for understanding primary caregiving fathers (2017, background): “Significantly, hegemonic masculinity has also informed the expectation that fathers should be the primary financial provider; they are expected to construct their identities as fathers through paid work (Haas & Hwang, 2008).”
• How Long Should Parental Leave Be? Attitudes to Gender Equality, Family, and Work as Determinants of Women’s and Men’s Parental Leave in Sweden (2014, background): “Fathers’ participation in early child care is important for continued father–child contact (Haas & Hwang, 2008), and it is strongly encouraged in Sweden.”
• What are the effects of reforms promoting fathers’ parental leave use? (2012, result): “Some studies lend support to the association between early father involvement and later father engagement (Haas and Hwang, 2008) but the causality and selection aspects are rarely disentangled.”
• What Happens after the ‘Daddy Months’? Fathers’ Involvement in Paid Work, Childcare, and Housework after Taking Parental Leave in Germany (2015, methodology): “For mothers, taking parental leave is associated with lower earnings and reduced career opportunities, and research from the United States and Sweden suggests that these caregiver penalties may be even more pronounced for fathers (Albrecht et al., 1999; Coltrane et al., 2013).”
• Parental leave regulations and the persistence of the male breadwinner model: Using fuzzy-set ideal type analysis to assess gender equality in an enlarged Europe (2012, background): “For instance, research shows that fathers’ use of leave can have long-lasting effects on their subsequent involvement in childcare (Haas and Hwang, 2008).”