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Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures iv
- Acknowledgements v
- Notes on contributors vi
- Introduction 1
- Australia: the difficult birth of paid maternity leave 15
- Canada and Québec: two policies, one country 33
- Czech Republic: normative or choice-oriented system? 51
- Estonia: halfway from the Soviet Union to the Nordic countries 69
- Finland: negotiating tripartite compromises 87
- France: gender equality a pipe dream? 103
- Germany: taking a Nordic turn? 119
- Hungary and Slovenia: long leave or short? 135
- Iceland: from reluctance to fast-track engineering 159
- The Netherlands: bridging labour and care 175
- Norway: the making of the father’s quota 191
- Portugal and Spain: two pathways in Southern Europe 207
- Sweden: individualisation or free choice in parental leave? 227
- The European directive: making supra-national parental leave policy 243
- Conclusion 259
- Demographic, gender and early childhood policy indicators for case study countries (2005, 2006) 273
- Index 275
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures iv
- Acknowledgements v
- Notes on contributors vi
- Introduction 1
- Australia: the difficult birth of paid maternity leave 15
- Canada and Québec: two policies, one country 33
- Czech Republic: normative or choice-oriented system? 51
- Estonia: halfway from the Soviet Union to the Nordic countries 69
- Finland: negotiating tripartite compromises 87
- France: gender equality a pipe dream? 103
- Germany: taking a Nordic turn? 119
- Hungary and Slovenia: long leave or short? 135
- Iceland: from reluctance to fast-track engineering 159
- The Netherlands: bridging labour and care 175
- Norway: the making of the father’s quota 191
- Portugal and Spain: two pathways in Southern Europe 207
- Sweden: individualisation or free choice in parental leave? 227
- The European directive: making supra-national parental leave policy 243
- Conclusion 259
- Demographic, gender and early childhood policy indicators for case study countries (2005, 2006) 273
- Index 275