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Gender Revolution for Whom? Parental leave division and union dissolution risks among parental groups in Sweden
Abstract: The
Swedish parental leave policy and father’s quota reforms have contributed to
the norm that fathers should be involved in the care of the youngest children.
While theories suggest that fathers’ involvement in domestic work increase
family stability, earlier research has been inconclusive on the relationship
between parental leave use and union dissolution risk. This study suggests that
norms regarding whether to share parental leave equally differ between groups
and that norm compliance and related dissolution risks therefore differ. The
study analyses the relationship between parental leave division and dissolution
risks in relationships characterized by educational homogamy, hypogamy or
hypergamy. Dissolution risks for parents of the 2002-2009 child cohort are
analysed using register data and a discrete hazard regression model. The
results indicate that almost all parental groups experience lower dissolution
risk when the fathers use some parental leave. However, only couples where both
have high education have a possible further reduced dissolution risk when
sharing parental leave equally. Couples where both have low education, or where
the woman has relatively higher education, experience increased risks when
sharing equally. Parental leave division seems to matter less among couples
where the man has relatively higher education. Implications for theory are
discussed.
Funding
Research Council of Norway [217915/F10].
History
ISSN
2002-617XPublication date
2018-11-29Usage metrics
Keywords
Gender revolutionparental leavegender normsunion dissolution dynamicsseparationrelative educationSweden‘Stockholm Reports in Demography’Sociologiska institutionenDepartment of SociologySUDAStockholm University Demography UnitStockholms universitets demografiska avdelningDemography not elsewhere classifiedSociology
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