Gender gap in parental leave intentions : Evidence from 37 countries
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F23%3A00130793" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/23:00130793 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pops.12880" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pops.12880</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pops.12880" target="_blank" >10.1111/pops.12880</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Gender gap in parental leave intentions : Evidence from 37 countries
Original language description
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.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Political Psychology
ISSN
0162-895X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
44
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
30
Pages from-to
1163-1192
UT code for WoS article
000928249400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85173695758