Chapter 8 Questions

Parental Leave and Gender Equality
  1. In what respects is the distribution of labour gendered? What moral wrongs, if any, are involved in the gendered division labour?
  1. What does it mean for parental leave schemes to be equality-impeding, equality-enabling, and equality-promoting? Which should we be in favour of and why?
  1. On what grounds can we defend mandatory parental leave? Do such schemes interfere too much in parents’ lives undermining their liberty?
  1. What other parental leave schemes have been proposed in recent literature? Are there any reasons to favour one of these alternatives to mandatory leave?
  1. Is it a mistake to focus on reforming parental leave in the campaign for gender equality?
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