New Family Arrangements, Old Gender Social Conventions: Parental Leave as Public Policy to Deal with these Tensions
The aim of this paper is to address the gap between the actual changes in the family structure and how the State deals with these matters through public policies which only take into account a strict and conventional model of family (nuclear families, consisting of couples with children), which r...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2009-09-01
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| Series: | Revista Estudos Feministas |
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| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/13047 |
| Summary: | The aim of this paper is to address the gap between the actual changes in the family
structure and how the State deals with these matters through public policies which only take into
account a strict and conventional model of family (nuclear families, consisting of couples with
children), which reaffirms traditional gender conventions. As an example of this gap, we will
present the case of work leave for the care of dependents, taking into account the information
produced in the research Portrait of Inequalities, that highlights the establishment of new types of
family structure. |
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| ISSN: | 0104-026X 1806-9584 |