A Gender Equalizing Regulatory Welfare State? Enacting the EU’s Work-Life Balance Directive in Denmark and Poland
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A Gender Equalizing Regulatory Welfare State? Enacting the EU’s Work-Life Balance Directive in Denmark and Poland. / de la Porte, Caroline; Larsen, Trine Pernille; Szelewa, Dorota .
I: The Annals of American Academy of Political and Social Science, Bind 691, Nr. 1, 01.12.2020, s. 84-103.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - A Gender Equalizing Regulatory Welfare State?
T2 - Enacting the EU’s Work-Life Balance Directive in Denmark and Poland
AU - de la Porte, Caroline
AU - Larsen, Trine Pernille
AU - Szelewa, Dorota
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - This article examines the implementation of the European Union’s (EU) work-life balance directive in Denmark and Poland through examining the earmarking of paid parental leave. This enables us to assess whether the EU could be emerging as a gender equalizing regulatory welfare state (RWS). Our analysis points to tensions arising when regulatory decisions are made at a higher level of governance but require implementation and funding at lower levels of governance. In both countries, there are similar parental leave schemes ex-ante, and major actors had similar initial stances on parental leave, favoring stagnation. Yet the plans to implement show how the actors’ positions changed, and the likely result is extended parental leave, with payment (known as double expansion) and more gender-equal participation (degenderization) in parental leave. Although in two different institutional settings, the similar outcome suggests that these changes are due to the European Union acting as an emerging RWS, which influences Member States’ regulatory instruments with fiscal elements.
AB - This article examines the implementation of the European Union’s (EU) work-life balance directive in Denmark and Poland through examining the earmarking of paid parental leave. This enables us to assess whether the EU could be emerging as a gender equalizing regulatory welfare state (RWS). Our analysis points to tensions arising when regulatory decisions are made at a higher level of governance but require implementation and funding at lower levels of governance. In both countries, there are similar parental leave schemes ex-ante, and major actors had similar initial stances on parental leave, favoring stagnation. Yet the plans to implement show how the actors’ positions changed, and the likely result is extended parental leave, with payment (known as double expansion) and more gender-equal participation (degenderization) in parental leave. Although in two different institutional settings, the similar outcome suggests that these changes are due to the European Union acting as an emerging RWS, which influences Member States’ regulatory instruments with fiscal elements.
KW - Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet
KW - work-life balance
KW - gender equality
KW - EU social policy
KW - parental leave
KW - Denmark
KW - Poland
KW - regulatory welfare state
U2 - 10.1177/0002716220956910
DO - 10.1177/0002716220956910
M3 - Tidsskriftartikel
VL - 691
SP - 84
EP - 103
JO - The Annals of American Academy of Political and Social Science
JF - The Annals of American Academy of Political and Social Science
SN - 0002-7162
IS - 1
ER -
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