What does motherhood mean today? Drawing on interviews with new mothers and
intergenerational chains of women in the same family, this exciting and timely book …

Sharing Lives explores the most important human relationships which last for the longest
period of our lives: those between adult children and their parents. Offering a new reference …

The Nordic welfare model is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Using Denmark we
show how a universal welfare state model is gradually being transformed into an emergent …

This article presents the main distinctive characteristics of the Nordic welfare states. These
include, for example, full employment, high degree of equality, a high level of taxes and a …

This book discusses and analyses the ways in which fatherhood is in transition in
contemporary and globalized society. The authors identify and examine fathering practices …

Occupational welfare is becoming increasingly important in Europe. This book presents data
on occupational welfare and its development, and questions not only the traditional …

Why fathers did or did not take paid parental leave and their leave practices were studied in
two countries with very different policies and cultural contexts, namely France and Sweden …

Comprehensive gender equality remains an unfulfilled goal in many European countries, in
spite of important developments and challenges to the traditional gendered division of …

This article analyses the interplay of public and occupational work‒family policies in
institutionally different countries (Austria, Denmark, Italy and United Kingdom). Most of the …

BACKGROUND Depending on whether the global level of fertility is assumed to converge to
the current European TFR (~ 1.5) or that of Southeast Asia or Central America (~ 2.5), global …