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- Title
The State as a Norm-Builder? The Take-up of Parental Leave in Norway and Sweden.
- Authors
Bergqvist, Christina; Saxonberg, Steven
- Abstract
This study shows that although Norway and Sweden have rather similar family policies, the seemingly small differences that exist reflect different national ideals of care, and these differences encourage parents to employ different gendered moral rationalities. However, Sweden's ideal of 'equal-sharing/professional care', encourages fathers to take longer leaves than the Norwegian ideal of 'partial sharing plus choosing between professional or parental care'. Given their different national ideals of caring, different gendered moral rationalities emerge. While in Norway the dominant gendered moral rationality among our interviewees is 'man-doing-his-duty', in Sweden two different rationalities arise: the 'breastfeeding-plus-sharing' rationality and the 'male-opt-out'. This conclusion is based on 60 interviews with mothers and fathers in Oslo and Stockholm.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; PARENTAL leave; SOCIAL norms; FAMILY policy; PARENT-child relationships; ATTITUDES of mothers; GENDER inequality; NORWEGIAN politics &; government; SWEDISH politics &; government; HISTORY; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Social Policy & Administration, 2017, Vol 51, Issue 7, p1470
- ISSN
0144-5596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/spol.12251