Gender gap in parental leave intentions: evidence from 37 countries /

Maria I. T Olsson; Sanne van Grootel; Katharina Block; Carolin Schuster; Loes Meeussen; Colette Van Laar; Toni Schmader; Alyssa Croft; Molly Shuyi Sun; Mare Ainsaar; Lianne Aarntzen; Magdalena Adamus; Joel Anderson; Ciara Atkinson; Mohamad Avicenna; Przemyslaw Babel; Markus Barth; Tessa M Benson-Greenwald; Edona Maloku; Jacques Berent; Hilary B Bergsieker; Monica Biernat; Andreea G Birneanu; Blerta Bodinaku; Janine Bosak; Jennifer Bosson; Marija Brankovic; Julius Burkauskas; Vladimira Čavojova; Sapna Cheryan; Eunsoo Choi; Incheol Choi; Carlos C Contreras-Ibanez; Andrew Coogan; Ivan Danyliuk; Ilan Dar-Nimrod; Nilanjana Dasgupta; Soledad de Lemus; Thierry Devos; Marwan Diab; Amanda B Diekman; Maria Efremova; Leila Eisner; Anja Eller; Rasa Erentaite; Denisa Fedakova; Renata Franc; Leire Gartzia; Alin Gavreliuc; Dana Gavreliuc; Julija Gecaite-Stončciene; Adriana L Germano; Ilaria Giovannelli; Renzo Gismondi Diaz; Lyudmila Gitikhmayeva; Abiy Menkir Gizaw; Biljana Gjoneska; Omar Martinez Gonzalez; Roberto Gonzalez; Isaac David Grijalva; Derya Guengoer; Marie Gustafsson Senden; William Hall; Charles Harb; Bushra Hassan; Tabea Haessler; Diala R Hawi; Levke Henningsen; Annedore Hoppe; Keiko Ishii; Ivana Jaksic; Alba Jasini; Jurgita Jurkeviciene; Kaltrina Kelmendi; Teri A Kirby; Yoko Kitakaji; Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka; Inna Kozytska; Clara Kulich; Eva Kundtova-Klocova; Filiz Kunuroglu; Christina Lapytskaia Aidy; Albert Lee; Anna Lindqvist; Wilson Lopez-Lopez; Liany Luzvinda; Fridanna Maricchiolo; Delphine Martinot; Rita Anne McNamara; Alyson Meister; Tizita Lemma Melka; Narseta Mickuviene; Maria Isabel Miranda-Orrego; Thadeus Mkamwa; James Morandini; Thomas Morton; David Mrisho; Jana Nikitin; Sabine Otten; Maria Giuseppina Pacilli; Elizabeth Page-Gould; Ana Perandres; Jon Pizarro; Nada Pop-Jordanova; Joanna Pyrkosz-Pacyna; Sameir Quta; TamilSelvan Ramis; Nitya Rani; Sandrine Redersdorff; Isabelle Regner; Emma A Renstrom; Adrian Rivera-Rodriguez; Sanchez Tania Esmeralda Rocha; Tatiana Ryabichenko; Rim Saab; Kiriko Sakata; Adil Samekin; Tracy Sanchez-Pachecho; Carolin Scheifele; Marion K Schulmeyer; Sabine Sczesny; David Sirlopu; Vanessa Smith-Castro; Kadri Soo; Federica Spaccatini; Jennifer R Steele; Melanie C Steffens; Ines Sucic; Joseph Vandello; Laura Maria Velasquez-Diaz; Melissa Vink; Eva Vives; Turuwark Zalalam Warkineh; Iris Zezelj; Xiaoxiao Zhang; Xian Zhao; Sarah E Martiny

doi:10.1111/pops.12880

Title	Gender gap in parental leave intentions: evidence from 37 countries /
Authors	Olsson, Maria I. T ; van Grootel, Sanne ; Block, Katharina ; Schuster, Carolin ; Meeussen, Loes ; Van Laar, Colette ; Schmader, Toni ; Croft, Alyssa ; Sun, Molly Shuyi ; Ainsaar, Mare ; Aarntzen, Lianne ; Adamus, Magdalena ; Anderson, Joel ; Atkinson, Ciara ; Avicenna, Mohamad ; Babel, Przemyslaw ; Barth, Markus ; Benson-Greenwald, Tessa M ; Maloku, Edona ; Berent, Jacques ; Bergsieker, Hilary B ; Biernat, Monica ; Birneanu, Andreea G ; Bodinaku, Blerta ; Bosak, Janine ; Bosson, Jennifer ; Brankovic, Marija ; Burkauskas, Julius ; Čavojova, Vladimira ; Cheryan, Sapna ; Choi, Eunsoo ; Choi, Incheol ; Contreras-Ibanez, Carlos C ; Coogan, Andrew ; Danyliuk, Ivan ; Dar-Nimrod, Ilan ; Dasgupta, Nilanjana ; de Lemus, Soledad ; Devos, Thierry ; Diab, Marwan ; Diekman, Amanda B ; Efremova, Maria ; Eisner, Leila ; Eller, Anja ; Erentaite, Rasa ; Fedakova, Denisa ; Franc, Renata ; Gartzia, Leire ; Gavreliuc, Alin ; Gavreliuc, Dana ; Gecaite-Stončciene, Julija ; Germano, Adriana L ; Giovannelli, Ilaria ; Diaz, Renzo Gismondi ; Gitikhmayeva, Lyudmila ; Gizaw, Abiy Menkir ; Gjoneska, Biljana ; Martinez Gonzalez, Omar ; Gonzalez, Roberto ; David Grijalva, Isaac ; Guengoer, Derya ; Senden, Marie Gustafsson ; Hall, William ; Harb, Charles ; Hassan, Bushra ; Haessler, Tabea ; Hawi, Diala R ; Henningsen, Levke ; Hoppe, Annedore ; Ishii, Keiko ; Jaksic, Ivana ; Jasini, Alba ; Jurkeviciene, Jurgita ; Kelmendi, Kaltrina ; Kirby, Teri A ; Kitakaji, Yoko ; Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza ; Kozytska, Inna ; Kulich, Clara ; Kundtova-Klocova, Eva ; Kunuroglu, Filiz ; Aidy, Christina Lapytskaia ; Lee, Albert ; Lindqvist, Anna ; Lopez-Lopez, Wilson ; Luzvinda, Liany ; Maricchiolo, Fridanna ; Martinot, Delphine ; McNamara, Rita Anne ; Meister, Alyson ; Melka, Tizita Lemma ; Mickuviene, Narseta ; Isabel Miranda-Orrego, Maria ; Mkamwa, Thadeus ; Morandini, James ; Morton, Thomas ; Mrisho, David ; Nikitin, Jana ; Otten, Sabine ; Pacilli, Maria Giuseppina ; Page-Gould, Elizabeth ; Perandres, Ana ; Pizarro, Jon ; Pop-Jordanova, Nada ; Pyrkosz-Pacyna, Joanna ; Quta, Sameir ; Ramis, TamilSelvan ; Rani, Nitya ; Redersdorff, Sandrine ; Regner, Isabelle ; Renstrom, Emma A ; Rivera-Rodriguez, Adrian ; Esmeralda Rocha, Sanchez Tania ; Ryabichenko, Tatiana ; Saab, Rim ; Sakata, Kiriko ; Samekin, Adil ; Sanchez-Pachecho, Tracy ; Scheifele, Carolin ; Schulmeyer, Marion K ; Sczesny, Sabine ; Sirlopu, David ; Smith-Castro, Vanessa ; Soo, Kadri ; Spaccatini, Federica ; Steele, Jennifer R ; Steffens, Melanie C ; Sucic, Ines ; Vandello, Joseph ; Maria Velasquez-Diaz, Laura ; Vink, Melissa ; Vives, Eva ; Warkineh, Turuwark Zalalam ; Zezelj, Iris ; Zhang, Xiaoxiao ; Zhao, Xian ; Martiny, Sarah E
DOI	10.1111/pops.12880
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Is Part of	Political psychology.. Hoboken : Wiley. 2023, vol. 44, iss. 6, p. 1163-1192.. ISSN 0162-895X. eISSN 1467-9221
Keywords [eng]	parental leave ; gender ; cross-national ; inequality ; childcare
Abstract [eng]	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.
Published	Hoboken : Wiley
Type	Journal article
Language	English
Publication date	2023
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