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Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender EqualityFathers Taking Leave Alone in the UK – A Gift Exchange Between Mother and Father?

Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality: Fathers Taking Leave Alone in... [Over the last decade there has been a gradual enhancement of British fathers’ rights in the workplace, even though the UK has one of the longest maternity leaves in OECD countries. From April 2003, for the first time, British fathers were given a legal right to take a 2 week paid paternity leave after the birth of a child, building on a 3 month unpaid parental leave entitlement available since 1999. In April 2011 a new right to allow fathers to take up to 6 months Additional Paternity Leave (APL) during the child’s first year, if the mother returns to work before the end of her maternity leave, was introduced.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender EqualityFathers Taking Leave Alone in the UK – A Gift Exchange Between Mother and Father?

Part of the Life Course Research and Social Policies Book Series (volume 6)
Editors: O'Brien, Margaret; Wall, Karin
O’Brien, Margaret; Twamley, Katherine
Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality — Dec 7, 2016
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2017. This book is published open access.
ISBN
978-3-319-42968-7
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163 –181
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10.1007/978-3-319-42970-0_10
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Abstract

[Over the last decade there has been a gradual enhancement of British fathers’ rights in the workplace, even though the UK has one of the longest maternity leaves in OECD countries. From April 2003, for the first time, British fathers were given a legal right to take a 2 week paid paternity leave after the birth of a child, building on a 3 month unpaid parental leave entitlement available since 1999. In April 2011 a new right to allow fathers to take up to 6 months Additional Paternity Leave (APL) during the child’s first year, if the mother returns to work before the end of her maternity leave, was introduced.]

Published: Dec 7, 2016

Keywords: Parental Leave; Maternity Leave; Gift Exchange; Paternity Leave; Leave Period

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