leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Read more about the authors’ findings here: su.figshare.com/articles/pre...su.figshare.com 000
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Different responses likely reflect structural inequalities—labour market attachment, income security, and caregiving norms—demonstrating how policy design alone may not close group gaps without addressing the underlying economic and social conditions that shape who can use leave. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 29/07/2026In several cases, trends after the reform show stagnation or declining use among migrant mothers, while Swedish-born fathers show gradual increases over the long run. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The 2006 reform triggered short‑term adjustments for some groups, but did not produce sustained convergence between migrants and Swedish-born parents over time. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The authors identify a persistent pattern: mothers take more leave than fathers across all groups, both in uptake and in intensity. Migration-background differences appear more strongly among mothers, especially non‑EU migrant mothers, who show higher initial levels of leave use. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Researchers compare both mothers and fathers across three groups—Swedish-born parents, EU migrants, and non‑EU migrants—and two core outcomes: uptake (whether parents take leave) and intensity (average number of leave days taken). 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 29/07/2026In 2006, Sweden’s minimum flat-rate parental leave benefit (“Lägstanivå”) tripled from 60 to 180 SEK/day. The authors used Swedish monthly administrative register data (2000–2013), analyzed with Interrupted Time Series models, to detect shifts in leave use and intensity following the reform. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Parental leave reforms aim to boost gender equality and social inclusion—but do all groups benefit the same way? This study tests that question in Sweden after a major benefit increase.su.figshare.com 110
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Roberta Misuraca, Eleonora Mussino, & Ann-Zofie Duvander have published a new article exploring how parental leave reforms affect migrants’ uptake in Sweden. su.figshare.com/articles/pre...su.figshare.com 101
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Thank you to the authors for this piece! Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgPension Inequalities and Policy Responses | Social Policy and Society | Cambridge CorePension Inequalities and Policy Responses - Volume 25 Issue 2 000
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The authors advocate for adequacy (enough to live on) and fairness (equitably distributed outcomes) to be central to Labour’s approach, to signal real recognition of how pensions are experienced by Britain’s increasingly diverse population and evolving society and economy. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Opportunities and costs accumulate over time. Pension inequality is produced by interacting policies, labour markets, and demographic/socio-economic change across the life course. 110
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 22/07/2026They highlight consistent evidence of gender and ethnic inequalities in labour market participation (especially precarious work, part-time work), pension outcomes, and broader financial and non-financial well-being indicators. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The authors map out future directions and identify gaps in current government action, arguing structural inequalities in both the labour market and the pension system persist. Unequal work patterns translate into unequal pension outcomes, often in predictable, patterned ways. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Pensions are not just a technical policy area, but a key issue in British elections. This paper reflects on what the first year under a Labour government has meant for pension policy, measured against pre-election pledges. It also asks what is missing, and how the policy could go further. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Athina Vlachantoni and Suzy Morrissey have authored a new article, “Pension Inequalities and Policy Responses.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgPension Inequalities and Policy Responses | Social Policy and Society | Cambridge CorePension Inequalities and Policy Responses - Volume 25 Issue 2 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Congratulations to Dr. Atkinson on the successful completion of this important dissertation work! Read here: repository.mmu.ac.uk/articles/the...repository.mmu.ac.uk 000
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Improving equality, and helping parents manage paid work and caring obligations in early parenthood, requires changing organisational conditions (norms, flexibility, career penalties).repository.mmu.ac.uk 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Gendered parenting roles are reproduced through an interaction of organisational structures and individual navigation, and maps how work can both enable and constrain involved parenthood for both mothers and fathers. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Atkinson introduces the concept of “rhythems" to shows how structure operates over time—a temporal lens helps explain why inequality can persist even when policies seem supportive on paper. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 20/07/2026This project also explores how policy weaknesses, workplace culture, and professional norms affect fathers’ ability to request parental leave, including shared parental leave). 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 20/07/2026The research examines how sex discrimination case law + real workplace negotiations (like reduced hours requests) shape new mothers’ work lives across pregnancy, maternity leave, and return to work. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Organisations aren’t neutral—policies, norms, and expectations can encode a model of the “ideal worker” that often clashes with caregiving. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Jamie Atkinson’s dissertation project explores how workplace structures shape the transition to parenthood, and how they reproduce gender inequality in parenting roles in the UK. repository.mmu.ac.uk/articles/the...repository.mmu.ac.uk 110
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Read more here: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...taylorfrancis.comChildren's time use | 22 | The Routledge International Handbook of TimThis chapter investigates the measurement of children’s time use in large-scale population surveys. Some information on children as young three years of age has 000
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Longitudinal surveys often collect crucial outcome variables (developmental, educational, wellbeing) that typical time-use surveys cannot capture, making them key resources for understanding children’s lives. 101
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 15/07/2026They also allow researchers to examine how media consumption shapes children’s behaviors—as they can link “what kids do each day” with later outcomes, rather than treating activities as isolated snapshots. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Longitudinal time-use data reveal change over time and help connect daily activities to larger forces: parental influences, the transmission of advantage/disadvantage, and how families juggle work and caregiving. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The richest evidence comes from longitudinal studies—especially the PSID Child Development Supplement (US) and the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC / “Growing Up in Australia”). 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 15/07/2026For adolescents, the chapter points to the UK Millennium Cohort Study (Wave 6), showing how time-use modules in broader cohort studies can illuminate teen life, learning, and leisure in context. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Some surveys track children as young as age 3, relying on parent-reported activities (e.g., Italian time-use surveys), a pragmatic approach that allows researchers to study early childhood routines at scale. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Measuring what children do with their time offers a window into development, family life, and social inequality. This chapter maps how researchers capture that window in population surveys. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 15/07/2026In a new book chpater, Jennifer A. Baxter, Michael Bittman, Joanne Corey, and Jenny Gallagher explore how large-scale surveys measure children’s time use—from toddler activities reported by parents to detailed longitudinal diaries. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...taylorfrancis.comChildren's time use | 22 | The Routledge International Handbook of TimThis chapter investigates the measurement of children’s time use in large-scale population surveys. Some information on children as young three years of age has 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Thanks to the authors for this intervention! Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/anti...doi.org 000
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 13/07/2026This Symposium is attentive to care’s limits and entanglements with violence, while still spotlighting moments of relationality, refusal, and alternative possibilities for collective and institutional care. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 13/07/2026By centering proximate, vernacular, historically situated forms of care, the symposium highlights concepts like ambivalence, friction, and contradiction to analyze how care can both challenge and reinforce harm. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 13/07/2026This tension underscores how care is simultaneously agentic and constraining. People mobilize care to survive and resist, yet caring relations can also be captured by neoliberal, capitalist, and imperial systems that profit from dependency and scarcity. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 13/07/2026The symposium builds on “crisis of care” debates, highlighting how reproductive labor is unevenly distributed along gendered, racialized, and classed lines. Though care can be life-giving, it can also be exhausting, coerced, and unequally demanded. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 13/07/2026This piece frames care as an everyday practice and political infrastructure, embedded in institutions, economies, and histories that shape who gets cared for, by whom, and at what cost.doi.org 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 13/07/2026A new article by Jules Allen, Yasmeen Arif, Asiya Islam, Clare Walsh and Sibylla Warrington introduces a symposium on how care sustains life and reproduces inequality, particularly across the Global South. doi.org/10.1111/anti...doi.org 110
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Thank you to Popescu for this work! Read more here: doi.org/10.1332/2046...doi.org 000
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 08/07/2026By treating some ex-partner ties as kinship, the article broadens “voluntary kinship” and “family practices” beyond conventional households—inviting us to map the many ways relationships remain socially real after formal endings. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 08/07/2026The study also spotlights endurance without usual explanations (parenting, illness, crises), making the continuity itself the phenomenon—separation can still produce stable patterns of social relatedness. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Post-separation ties can persist through fluid, creative practices—from ordinary check-ins to deeper identity-level connections—showing continuity that standard breakup narratives often miss. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Based on 26 in-depth narrative interviews with both partners in ex-couples, Popescu traces how people “do” kinship in everyday life—through routines, mutual care, and ongoing meanings attached to the relationship. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 08/07/2026This paper reframes ex-couple relationships as continuing kinship, asking what “family” can mean after separation—especially when there are no shared children or major life events forcing contact. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 08/07/2026In “Former partners, still related: remaining kin after separation,” Raluca Popescu offers a novel perspective on breakup as not necessarily the end of kinship ties. doi.org/10.1332/2046...doi.org 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Thank you to the authors for this piece! Read here: ideas.repec.org/p/osf/socarx...ideas.repec.orgParenting Leave Policies and Social Inequalities in Europe: Evidence, Blind Spots and Policy Direction 000
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 06/07/2026The authors highlight that, though parenting leave can be a powerful equality policy, it is critical to track implementation and lived access, not just legislation. Ultimately, evidence gaps shape whose inequalities are addressed in public policy interventions. 100
leavenetwork.bsky.social @leavenetwork.bsky.social · 06/07/2026The brief pushes for sharper evidence to guide policy direction: better data, better measurement of take-up, and more attention to blind spots that hide unequal outcomes. 100
