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Building: UFO, Floor: 1, Room: Leslokaal 1.1 - Henri Pirenne
Tuesday 09:00 - 10:30 CEST (09/07/2024)
The European Work-Life Balance (WLB) Directive approved in 2019 aims to improve the set of social policies addressing the relationship between paid employment and care. After decades of WLB policies almost exclusively targeting women, the Directive attempts to equalise caring responsibilities between women and men by engaging fathers in care. As such, paternity leave is a key mechanism of the Directive. The new European regulation attempts also to foster the care-work relationship by improving support to workers with caring responsibilities. By presenting a total of 6 papers this panel expects to contribute to ongoing research and discussions regarding the new directions of WLB policies in different welfare states and their implications. Contributions employ different theoretical and analytical frameworks; they adopt different methodological approaches and include single country cases and comparative approaches. Our panel fits in with the following topics described in the Section: Gender and public policy from below: the reception and usages of (in)equality policies; Gender and labour market policy reforms (in particular, labour market outcomes of paternity and parental leave reforms); Feminist interpretations of social policy reforms; The politics of social care policies.
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| 1. Five Years after the European Work-Life Balance Directive: Bare minimum or real work-family support? | View Paper Details |
| Navigating family transitions: revealing the role of social policy in family resilience | View Paper Details |
| Formal rights vs real opportunities: Father’s experiences of (non)take-up of parental leaves in Poland | View Paper Details |
| Equal Leave, Solo Impact: When Equal, Non-transferable Paternity Leave Reduces the Motherhood Penalty in Spain | View Paper Details |
| Generous paternity leave entitlements in a segmented labor market: A cautionary tale of paternity leave take-up in Spain | View Paper Details |
| Care and Minimum Income Policies. When Welfare Conditionality meets Unpaid Care Work. | View Paper Details |