Talk:Parental leave/Archives/2015

Why was the POV tag placed on this article?
I don't see any evidence of a neutrality dispute here. Which part of this article is controversial? Jarble (talk) 05:35, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
 * The POV tag was placed on 2 Nov 2014 with no comment. I have removed it per the template's documentation:  "Drive-by tagging is strongly discouraged. ... In the absence of such a discussion [by the person adding the tag], or where it remains unclear what the NPOV violation is, the tag may be removed by any editor."  --Hirsutism (talk) 13:23, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose that Parental leave economics and Effects of parental leave be merged into Parental leave. (See my post above for full proposal) Melody.waring (talk) 00:52, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Suggestions
Melody.waring - I like that you added content on the economic models and effects of parental leave to round out the descriptive content of country level policies. You generally do a good job of addressing the models in different countries, but the Private parental leave section focuses mostly on the US. It might benefit from a view of businesses abroad. For the content added explicitly on the US, it has a slight negative bias. It might be useful to address the reasons why paid family leave has not developed here. Finally, I suggest a few minor formatting changes to the Benefits in a selection of countries section: condense the overview, delete Cabo Verde under Africa, and remove the description of Australia under Asia/Pacific because it is contained in the table. Dthim (talk) 15:56, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

I was very impressed with how comprehensive this article is! I especially appreciated how you applied the capabilities approach and ideas based on a neoclassical model of labor markets to understandings of the role of leave in society and your use of scholarly research on the various forms and impacts of leave. I think the entire article could benefit from better contextualizing the U.S.'s lack of paid leave - what have been the recent debates surrounding this issue? What do opponents of expanding it draw upon to justify this position? It was great to see the information about so many different countries, but I found the tables difficult to read. I am wondering if some of that information might be better represented in graphs or illustrations in some way. I was also a bit confused about private parental leave and its prevalence as a model of leave. Great start - looking forward to seeing the final version! Keareid (talk) 23:52, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Revisions / consolidations
Hello, I would like to help improve this article. I think there are at least two other shorter articles that could be consolidated with Parental Leave to broaden its coverage.

I would like to add Parental leave economics and Effects of parental leave as new sections in this article. I am planning several improvements to the Parental leave economics page, as posted on its talk page.

With the consolidated articles, I suggest rearranging and retitling the subheadings to better reflect existing material. A propose outline is:

1. Variation in international law (no change)

2. Economic models (consolidating from Parental leave economics and making changes to that article)

2.1 Capabilities approach

2.2 Benefits of universal, paid parental leave (i.e., argument for)

2.3 Challenges to universal, paid parental leave (i.e., argument against)

3. Effects of parental leave

3.1 Empirical studies on effects of policy changes

3.1a Short leave, e.g., France

3.1b Longer leave

3.1c Paternity leave and incentivizes, e.g., Norway

3.1d “Family policy bundles”, i.e, parental leave and subsidized childcare in the EU

3.2 Effects on prenatal and postnatal care (from effects of parental leave, no proposed changes)

3.3 Effects on Mothers (from effects of parental leave, no proposed changes)

3.4 Effects on the Labor Market (from effects of parental leave, no proposed changes)

4. Parental leave policy by country (only proposed change is adding a more explanations and details about some regions; leaving everything else as-is)

4.1 Europe

4.2 Americas

4.2a Parental leave in the United States

4.2b State-level factors

4.2c Employer influences

4.2d Domestic economics

4.3 Africa

4.4 Asia / Pacific

5. Parental leave policies in the United Nations (leaving material as is, but clarifying subheading title)

Please let me know any suggestions for me on how to improve the article as it is, or how to make this outline and suggested changes even better! I am new to Wikipedia and am very excited to be involved with this page. Please also feel free to see my comments on the Talk page of parental leave economics and paid family leave

working bibliography
A working bibliography I am drawing from as I work on this improvement:
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 * Bittman, M. (1999). Parenthood Without Penalty: Time Use And Public Policy In Australia And Finland. Feminist Economics, 5(3), 27-42. doi:10.1080/135457099337798
 * Datta Gupta, N., Smith, N. & Verner, M. 2008. The Impact of Nordic Countries’ Family Friendly Policies on Employment, Wages, and Children. Review of Economics of the Household 6(1): 65–89.
 * De Henau, J., Meulders, D., & O'Dorchai, S. (2010). Maybe Baby: Comparing Partnered Women's Employment and Child Policies in the EU-15. Feminist Economics, 16(1), 43-77. doi:10.1080/13545700903382703
 * Erhel, C., & Guergoat-Larivière, M. (2013). Labor Market Regimes, Family Policies, and Women's Behavior in the EU. Feminist Economics, 19(4), 76-109. doi:10.1080/13545701.2013.842649
 * Esping-Andersen, G. (2003). Women in the New Welfare Equilibrium. European Legacy, 8(5), 599.
 * Esping-Andersen, G., & Kolberg, J. E. (1991). Decommodification and Work Absence in the Welfare State. International Journal Of Sociology, 21(3), 77.
 * Joesch, J. M. (1997). "Paid Leave and the Timing of Women’s Employment Before and After Childbirth." Journal of Marriage and the Family 59(4): 1008–21.
 * Joseph, O., Pailhé, A., Recotillet, I., & Solaz, A. (2013). The economic impact of taking short parental leave: Evaluation of a French reform. Labour Economics, 25(European Association of Labour Economists 24th Annual Conference, Bonn, Germany, 20-22 September 2012), 63-75. doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2013.04.012
 * Kluve, J., & Tamm, M. (2013). Parental Leave Regulations, Mothers' Labor Force Attachment and Fathers' Childcare Involvement: Evidence from a Natural Experiment. Journal Of Population Economics, 26(3), 983-1005. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00148-012-0404-1
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 * Rønsen, M., & Kitterød. R. H. (2015). Gender-equalizing family policies and mothers’ entry into paid work: recent evidence from Norway. Feminist Economics, 10(1):59-89.
 * Rønsen, M., & Sundström, M. (1996). "Maternal Employment in Scandinavia: A Comparison  of  the  After-Birth  Employment  Activity  of  Norwegian  and  Swedish Women." Journal of Population Economics 9(3): 267–85
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 * Ruhm, C. J. (1998). "The Economic Consequences of Parental Leave Mandates: Lessons from Europe." Quarterly Journal of Economics 113(1): 285–317
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Melody.waring (talk) 22:46, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Everything is ruined forever
I was only looking at the Europe and Africa tables, but I think they all need to be reviewed. Look at Sweden, Sweden says 14 weeks and 65 weeks paid leave, in different columns (should be 14 months, I believe). The "maternity leave (weeks)" columns alternate randomly between months and weeks, I think. That or I'm just reading it wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.145.131.134 (talk) 08:59, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi! I don't think everything is ruined forever, don't worry! I just updated the tables in May using 2014 data; weeks are used throughout the tables (except for the "Asia" table, which still needs to be updated). So with Sweden, for instance, the first column is 14 weeks maternity leave. But families in Sweden aren't just eligible for maternity leave; as a family, they (either parent) are eligible for a total of 80 weeks of parental leave in addition to the 14 weeks of maternity leave, though only 65 of those weeks are paid. (The remaining 15 weeks would be unpaid parental leave.) See page 158 of the source for more info: http://www.ilo.org/global/publications/ilo-bookstore/order-online/books/WCMS_242615/lang--en/index.htm Thanks for looking at the page and please add sources / make changes if you notice countries that are out of date! Melody.waring (talk) 00:51, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

Table: Sweden & Switzerland mixed up?
According https://sweden.se/quickfact/parental-leave/ Swedish parents are entitled for 480 days = 68.5 weeks of payed parental leave whereof 60 days are reserved for dad

Switzerland has only 14 weeks for the mother and zero for the father... (https://www.ch.ch/de/mutterschaftsurlaub/) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.140.153.50 (talk) 16:00, 11 August 2015 (UTC)