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Parental and Maternity Leave Policies In Canada and Sweden

27 Mar 2021

Section III compares the Canadian Maternity Leave and Benefit system to the Swedish Parental Leave program, in an attempt to assess the extent of major differences in the programs and to extract some tangible lessons from Sweden for the improvement of the Canadian Maternity Leave and Benefit program. [...] The right to the Parent's Cash Benefit for Temporary Care of Children concerning an illness of the person normally caring for the child is unaffected by the issue of whether that person is a member of the family 12 (FAFWC, 1979, p13). [...] It appears that the more advanced the occupations of the mothers and the higher their earnings, the greater is the proportion of fathers partaking of at least some part of the full- time leave. [...] Whereas the number of children in the family has not significantly affected the utilization of the benefit, the age of the children does make a difference (Kamerman, 1980). [...] In most families availing themselves of the Parent's Cash Benefit for the Temporary Care of Children, the mothers assume the majority of the responsibility for the nursing of sick children, regardless of the age of the child or the number of siblings in the family.
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Authors

Laurie Schwartz;Queen's University IRC

Pages
62
Published in
Canada
Title in English
A QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY IRC ARCHIVE DOCUMENT - Parental and Maternity Leave [from PDF fonts]