CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Vighová, Veronika |
|---|---|
| Title | Parental leave policy in Slovakia and Hungary: shifting in the same direction? |
| Summary | Gender equality, and more specifically the reconciliation of work and family life, is becoming increasingly important especially in the European Union. Parental leave is one of the policy instruments that significantly alter the gender roles ascribed to men and women. Current research of Central Eastern European countries generally shows them as very different in the field of family policy, because of their different pre-socialist and socialist legacies. In this thesis, however, I focus on two Central Eastern European countries, Slovakia and Hungary, which seem to be shifting in the same direction regarding parental leave policy since 1989. In order to find how the design of parental leave policy and its objectives changed over time I use critical discourse analysis of the available legislative documents for the period 1989-2014. I find that path dependence still has influence on the development of parental leave policy, but the role of the European Union in work-family reconciliation is also important. These findings therefore suggest that the field of family policy is, even though influenced by the long history of socialism in the region, indirectly influenced by the objectives of European Union. |
| Supervisor | Kovács, Borbála |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/vighova_veronika.pdf |
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