CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Valerio, Anna Patricia |
|---|---|
| Title | The Paternity Leave Puzzle: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of the Impact of Paid Father-Specific Leave on Women's Workplace Advancement in OECD Countries |
| Summary | Despite the emerging evidence on the link between paternity leave and women’s career outcomes, paternity leave has not had the same momentum as maternity leave. Through an innovative research design that combines a panel regression analysis with a modified version of process tracing, this study assesses whether paid father-specific leave has an impact on women’s workplace advancement in member countries of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) — where most countries have introduced some form of paid father-specific leave — and determines the factors that have influenced its uptake in Japan and Portugal, two OECD member countries that have implemented significant expansions of their paternity leave policies in the last decade but have seen divergent outcomes from their reforms. The panel regression analysis finds that, while paternity leave has a highly statistically significant, positive effect on the percentage of women holding company board seats, it has no statistically significant impact on the advancement of women at different stages of their careers. Meanwhile, the case studies point to the importance of a comprehensive consideration of the individual, interactional, and institutional dimensions in the design and implementation of a policy: while Japan offers a significantly lengthier paternity leave entitlement and a higher compensation rate for paid father-specific leave than Portugal, it has seen a lower uptake of paid father-specific leave because it lacks the necessary cultural and institutional infrastructure to support its paternity leave reform. |
| Supervisor | Brown, Caitlin; Ciornei, Irina |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/valerio_anna.pdf |
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