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