In current research, the extensive family policies of the Scandinavian countries have been
problematized and described as hampering women's careers. However, mechanisms have …

Purpose Parental leave in Sweden can be taken both as paid and unpaid leave and often
parents mix these forms in a very flexible way. Therefore, multiple methodological issues …

This article applies a couple perspective to assessing gender inequality in Sweden—a
setting with high maternal labour force participation, a long history of family policy …

Despite a long record of research on the sources of the gender wage gap, a large fraction of
gender wage differences remains unexplained. In this paper, we propose gender …

Significant gender-based health inequalities have been observed across Europe, with
women reporting worse health than men. Still, there has been little examination of how the …

The reversal of the gender gap in higher education has been a major social transformation:
women now outnumber men in higher education in nearly all OECD countries. Patterns of …

We know that parenthood has different consequences for men's and women's careers. Still,
the research remains inconclusive on the question of whether this is mainly a consequence …

The study aims to explore whether gendered family roles in the country of origin and the
country of destination explain labor market outcomes for immigrants in Sweden. We …

Objective: This paper explores the role of parental leave for gendered career patterns in
individualized, competitive labor markets in Norway, a culturally and politically family …

Wages are related to parenthood and to child-related absences from work. The link between
leave to care for sick children (CSC) and wages is understudied, however. CSC may …