‘Mommy, why daddy is not at home?’ : the case of parental leave in Sweden and Canada

dc.contributor.advisor Lerwall, Lotta
dc.contributor.author Bamhorová, Klaudia
dc.date.accessioned 2019-10-15T15:04:00Z
dc.date.available 2019-10-15T15:04:00Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.description Second semester University: Uppsala University en_US
dc.description.abstract This thesis is devoted to the analysis of the gender (un)equal uptake of parental leave and the current situations of fathering in Sweden and Canada. The main task of this work is to present the understanding of why fathers do not engage in care-taking as much as mothers do. The theoretical part of this work focuses on feminist theories that explain the lack of engagement of fathers and further factors that explain the unequal uptake of parental leave. Whereas the practical part analyses the uptake of parental leave by fathers in Sweden and Canada. In the last chapter, the theoretical understanding discussed in the first part of this thesis are applied to the case studies. The results of this work show that there is a need to tear down the socially constructed gender attributes via right policies accompanied by right programmes, regional and international cooperation and enhance the “family-friendliness” of all organizations in order to increase the equality in care-taking. en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/20.500.11825/1071
dc.identifier.uri http://dx.doi.org/10.25330/2231
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Global Campus Europe (EMA) theses 2018/2019;
dc.subject parents en_US
dc.subject family en_US
dc.subject Canada en_US
dc.subject Sweden en_US
dc.subject social rights en_US
dc.subject equality en_US
dc.subject feminism en_US
dc.title ‘Mommy, why daddy is not at home?’ : the case of parental leave in Sweden and Canada en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US
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