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Explaining New Patterns in Family Leave Policies in Latin America

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Explaining New Patterns in Family Leave Policies in Latin America
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/V6GY3U
 
Creator Carnes, Matthew
Hawley, Marisa
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Recent years have seen the rapid passage and modification of family leave policies in Latin America, a surprising trend, given the region’s historically conservative gender norms. This article argues that the rise of new paternity leave policies—as well as the modifications to longer-standing maternity leave policies—reflects contending visions of gender and the family, mediated by the institutions and actors that make up populate the region’s political landscape. Using an original dataset of family policy measures, this article finds that the factors facilitating the adoption of new, vanguard policies, such as paternity leave, function in ways different from those that shape the expansion of longer-standing policies, including maternity leave.
 
Subject Social Sciences
family policy
maternity leave
paternity leave
gender
labor
social policy
 
Contributor Carnes, Matthew