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 Home : Information Centres : Media Centre : Key Issues For Women in the Workplace : Scandinavian Resources

The Scandinavian Experience: Parental Leave and Work/Life Balance

 Online Articles and Publications
Bureau for Gender Equality (2004), Gender Equality and Decent Work: Good Practices in the Workplace, International Labour Organisation.

Gupta,N., Smith, N. & M. Verner (2006), Child Care and Parental Leave in the Nordic Countries: A Model to Aspire to? Discussion Paper No. 2014, Institute for the Study of Labour.

Gustafsson, S. S., E. Kenjoh and C. M. Wetzels (2002),"Postponement of Maternity and the Duration of Time Spent at Home after First Birth: Panel Data Analyses Comparing Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Sweden", OECD Labour Market and Social Policy, Occasional Papers, No. 59, OECD Publishing doi:10.1787/338705234870.

Lindvert, J. (2007), The Rules of the Game: Organizing Gender Policies in Australia and Sweden, Social Policy, June 7.

International Labour Organisation, (2005), “Modern daddy: Norway's progressive policy on paternity leave”, World of Work Magazine, No. 54, August, 12:16.

Pylkkanen, E. & Smith, N. (2003), Career Interruptions due to Parental Leave: A Comparative Study of Denmark and Sweden.

 Related Websites
Gender in Norway (Information and Resources on Gender Research and Gender Equality in Norway), see http://www.gender.no/News/1930  

Ministry for Children and Equality (Norway): Gender Equality, see
 http://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/bld/Topics/Equality.html?id=1246

Gender Statistics, see http://www.ssb.no/likestilling_en/

Nordic Institute for Gender Research, see http://www.nikk.uio.no/index_e.html

Kilden Information Centre for Gender Research in Norway, see http://kilden.forskningsradet.no/c17224/artikkel/vis.html?tid=17282

Statistics Sweden, see http://www.scb.se/templates/Product____12237.asp

Statistics Denmark, see http://www.dst.dk/HomeUK.aspx

Statistics Finland, see http://www.stat.fi/tup/tasaarvo/index_en.html

Finnish Gender Statistics Website, see http://www.tasa-arvotietopankki.fi/EN_index.html

Statistics Iceland, see http://www.statice.is/?PageID=1290

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Statistical database, see
 http://w3.unece.org/pxweb/Dialog/Default.asp

APESMA Professional Women’s Network, Maternity Leave Around the World: A Table of Comparisons, available at; http://www.apesma.asn.au/women/maternity_leave_aro
und_the_world.asp

International Labour Organisation (2000), C183 Maternity Protection Convention, available at; http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/convde.pl?C183

Literature
Arnlaug L. (2002), Working Parents and the Welfare State: Family Change and Policy Reform in Scandinavia, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

Brandth, B. & Kvande, E. (2003), “Children, Work and the New Fathers: Father Presence in Child Care,” in A.-M. Jensen & L. McKee (eds.), Children and the Changing Family - Between Transformation and Negotiation, London: Routledge

Briar, C. (2002), Babies and Bosses (2002): Reconciling Work and Family Life Vol. 1. Australia, Denmark and the Netherlands. OECD: Paris

Egger, P. & W. Sengenberger (eds.) (2003), Decent Work in Denmark, Employment, Social Efficiency and Economic Security, International Labour Organization

 Fetherolf Loutfi, M. (ed.) (2001), Women, Gender and. Work: What is Equality and How Do We Get There? Geneva: International Labour Organisation

Articles
Brandth, B. & Kvande, E. (2001), Flexible Work and Flexible Fathers. Work, Employment & Society, 15 (2): 251-267

Brandth, B. & Kvande, E. (2002), Reflexive fathers: negotiating parental leave and working life. Gender, Work and Organization, 9 (2): 186-204

 Gallie, D. (2007), Welfare Regimes, Employment Systems and Job Preference Orientations, European Sociological Review, July, 23(3): 279 – 293

Kaul, H. (1991), “Who Cares? Gender Inequality and Care Leave in the Nordic Countries,” Acta Sociologica; 34: 115-125

Oláh, L.S.S. (2001), “Policy changes and family stability: the Swedish case,” International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 15 (1):118-134

Rønsen, M., & Sundström, M. (2002), “Family Policy and After-Birth Employment among New Mothers - A Comparison of Finland, Norway and Sweden,” European Journal of Population, 18(2): 121-152

Rostgaard, T. (2002), “Setting Time Aside for the Father - Father's leave in the Scandinavia,” Community, Work and Family, 5 (3): 343-364

Related Reading- OECD Countries (Work life balance/ Parental Leave)
Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee (2007), The Role and Effectiveness of Time Policies for Reconciliation of Care Responsibilities, available at;
 http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/47/57/38674910.pdf

Jaumotte, F. (2003), Labour Force Participation of Women, Empirical Evidence on the Role of Policy and Other Determinants in OECD Countries, OECD Economic Studies, No. 37 (2), available at; http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/12/39/34562935.pdf

 

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