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@article{27366,
   author = {Saxonberg, Steven and Berqvist, Christina},
   article_location = {Hobokon},
   article_number = {7},
   keywords = {Parental leave; Parental sharing; Family policies; Norms; Gender equality},
   language = {eng},
   issn = {0144-5596},
   journal = {Social Policy and Administration},
   title = {The State as a Norm-builder? The Take up of Parental Leave in Norway and Sweden},
   url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/spol.12251/abstract},
   volume = {51},
   year = {2017}
}

TY  - JOUR
ID  - 27366
AU  - Saxonberg, Steven - Berqvist, Christina
PY  - 2017
TI  - The State as a Norm-builder? The Take up of Parental Leave in Norway and Sweden
JF  - Social Policy and Administration
VL  - 51
IS  - 7
SP  - 1470-1487
EP  - 1470-1487
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
SN  - 0144-5596
KW  - Parental leave
KW  - Parental sharing
KW  - Family policies
KW  - Norms
KW  - Gender equality
UR  - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/spol.12251/abstract
N2  - This study shows that although Norway and Sweden have rather similar family policies, the seemingly small differences that exist reflect different national ideals of care, and these differences encourage parents to employ different gendered moral rationalities. However, Sweden’s ideal of ‘equalsharing/ professional care’, encourages fathers to take longer leaves than the Norwegian ideal of ‘partial sharing plus choosing between professional or parental care’. Given their different national ideals of caring, different gendered moral rationalities emerge. While in Norway the dominant gendered moral rationality among our interviewees is ‘man-doing-his-duty’, in Sweden two different rationalities arise: the ‘breastfeeding-plus-sharing’ rationality and the ‘male-opt-out’. This conclusion is based on 60 interviews with mothers and fathers in Oslo and Stockholm.
ER  - 

SAXONBERG, Steven and Christina BERQVIST. The State as a Norm-builder? The Take up of Parental Leave in Norway and Sweden. \textit{Social Policy and Administration}. Hobokon: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017, vol.~51, No~7, p.~1470-1487. ISSN~0144-5596.