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Article Dans Une Revue Political Psychology Année : 2023

Gender Gap in Parental Leave Intentions: Evidence from 37 Countries

Maria Olsson (1) , Sanne van Grootel (2) , Katharina Block (3) , Carolin Schuster (4) , Loes Meeussen (2) , Colette van Laar (2) , Toni Schmader (5) , Alyssa Croft (6) , Molly Shuyi Sun (7) , Mare Ainsaar (8) , Lianne Aarntzen (9) , Magdalena Adamus , Joel Anderson (10, 11) , Ciara Atkinson (6) , Mohamad Avicenna , Przemysław Bąbel (12) , Markus Barth , Tessa Benson-Greenwald (13) , Edona Maloku , Jacques Berent (14) , Hilary Bergsieker (15) , Monica Biernat (16) , Andreea Bîrneanu (17) , Blerta Bodinaku (18) , Janine Bosak (19) , Jennifer Bosson (20) , Marija Branković (21) , Julius Burkauskas (22) , Vladimíra Čavojová , Sapna Cheryan (23) , Eunsoo Choi (24) , Incheol Choi (25) , Carlos Contreras-Ibáñez (26) , Andrew Coogan (27) , Ivan Danyliuk (28) , Ilan Dar-Nimrod (29) , Nilanjana Dasgupta (30) , Soledad de Lemus (31) , Thierry Devos (32) , Marwan Diab , Amanda Diekman (13) , Maria Efremova (33) , Léïla Eisner (34) , Anja Eller (35) , Rasa Erentaite (36) , Denisa Fedáková , Renata Franc (37) , Leire Gartzia (38) , Alin Gavreliuc (17) , Dana Gavreliuc (17) , Julija Gecaite-Stonciene (22) , Adriana Germano (23, 39) , Ilaria Giovannelli (40) , Renzo Gismondi Diaz , Lyudmila Gitikhmayeva (41) , Abiy Menkir Gizaw (42) , Biljana Gjoneska (43) , Omar Martínez González (35) , Roberto González (44) , Isaac David Grijalva (45) , Derya Güngör (2) , Marie Gustafsson Sendén (46) , William Hall (47) , Charles Harb (48, 49) , Bushra Hassan (50) , Tabea Hässler (34) , Diala Hawi (49) , Levke Henningsen (34, 51) , Annedore Hoppe (52) , Keiko Ishii (53) , Ivana Jakšić (21) , Alba Jasini (2) , Jurgita Jurkevičienė (36) , Kaltrina Kelmendi (54) , Teri Kirby (50, 55) , Yoko Kitakaji (56) , Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka (57) , Inna Kozytska (28) , Clara Kulich (14) , Eva Kundtová-Klocová (58) , Filiz Kunuroglu (59) , Christina Lapytskaia Aidy (60) , Albert Lee (61) , Anna Lindqvist (62) , Wilson López-López (63) , Liany Luzvinda , Fridanna Maricchiolo (64) , Delphine Martinot (65, 66) , Rita Anne Mcnamara (67) , Alyson Meister (68) , Tizita Lemma Melka (42) , Narseta Mickuviene (22) , María Isabel Miranda-Orrego (45) , Thadeus Mkamwa , James Morandini (29) , Thomas Morton (69) , David Mrisho , Jana Nikitin (70) , Sabine Otten (71) , Maria Giuseppina Pacilli (40) , Elizabeth Page-Gould (7) , Ana Perandrés (31) , Jon Pizarro (38) , Nada Pop-Jordanova (43) , Joanna Pyrkosz-Pacyna (72) , Sameir Quta (73) , Tamilselvan Ramis (74) , Nitya Rani , Sandrine Redersdorff (65, 66) , Isabelle Régner (75) , Emma Renström (76) , Adrian Rivera-Rodriguez (30) , Sánchez Tania Esmeralda Rocha (35) , Tatiana Ryabichenko (33) , Rim Saab (48, 77) , Kiriko Sakata (56) , Adil Samekin , Tracy Sánchez-Pachecho (78, 79) , Carolin Scheifele (2, 80, 81) , Marion Schulmeyer , Sabine Sczesny (82) , David Sirlopú (83) , Vanessa Smith-Castro (79) , Kadri Soo (8) , Federica Spaccatini (40) , Jennifer Steele (60) , Melanie Steffens (81) , Ines Sucic , Joseph Vandello (20) , Laura Maria Velásquez-Díaz (63) , Melissa Vink (9) , Eva Vives (75) , Turuwark Zalalam Warkineh (42) , Iris Žeželj (21) , Xiaoxiao Zhang (84) , Xian Zhao (7, 16) , Sarah Martiny (85)
1 Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences - Høgskolen i Innlandet
2 University of Leuven K.U.Leuven
3 UvA - University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] = Universiteit van Amsterdam
4 Leuphana University of Lüneburg
5 UBC - University of British Columbia
6 University of Arizona
7 University of Toronto
8 University of Tartu
9 Universiteit Utrecht / Utrecht University [Utrecht]
10 ACU - Australian Catholic University
11 La Trobe University
12 UJ - Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie = Jagiellonian University
13 Indiana University [Bloomington]
14 UNIGE - Université de Genève = University of Geneva
15 University of Waterloo [Waterloo]
16 University of Kansas [Kansas City]
17 UVT - Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara [România] = West University of Timișoara [Romania] = Université Ouest de Timișoara [Roumanie]
18 University of Tirana
19 DCU - Dublin City University [Dublin]
20 USF - University of South Florida [Tampa]
21 University of Belgrade [Belgrade]
22 LSMU - Lithuanian University of health Sciences
23 University of Washington [Seattle]
24 Korea University [Seoul]
25 SNU - Seoul National University [Seoul]
26 UAM - Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana [Mexico]
27 Maynooth University - National University of Ireland Maynooth
28 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
29 The University of Sydney
30 UMass Amherst - University of Massachusetts [Amherst]
31 UGR - Universidad de Granada = University of Granada
32 SDSU - San Diego State University
33 National Research University Higher School of Economics [St. Petersburg]
34 UZH - Universität Zürich [Zürich] = University of Zurich
35 UNAM - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México = National Autonomous University of Mexico
36 KTU - Kaunas University of Technology
37 Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar
38 Deusto Business School
39 CUMC - Columbia University Medical Center
40 University of Chieti-Pescara
41 L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University
42 BDU - Bahir Dar University
43 MASA - Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts [Skopje, North Macedonia]
44 UC - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
45 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
46 Stockholm University
47 Brock University [Canada]
48 AUB - American University of Beirut [Beyrouth]
49 School of Public Administration and Development Economics, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
50 2IU - International Islamic University [Islamabad, Pakistan]
51 University of Exeter
52 Leipzig University / Universität Leipzig
53 Nagoya City University [Nagoya, Japan]
54 University of Prishtina
55 Purdue University [West Lafayette]
56 Hiroshima University
57 UG - University of Gdańsk
58 MUNI - Masaryk University [Brno]
59 IKCU - Izmir Katip Celebi University
60 University of York [York, UK]
61 Nanyang Technological University [Singapour]
62 Lund University
63 PUJ - Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
64 ROMA TRE - Università degli Studi Roma Tre = Roma Tre University
65 UCA - Université Clermont Auvergne
66 LAPSCO - Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive
67 Victoria University of Wellington
68 IMD Business School
69 UCPH - University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet
70 University of Vienna [Vienna]
71 University of Groningen [Groningen]
72 AGH UST - AGH University of Science and Technology [Krakow, PL]
73 IUG - IU Gaza - Islamic University of Gaza
74 Sunway University [Malaysia]
75 LPC - Laboratoire de psychologie cognitive
76 University College of Kristianstad
77 University of Sussex
78 Universität Osnabrück - Osnabrück University
79 National University of Costa Rica
80 FWO - Research Foundation - Flanders [Brussel]
81 University of Kaiserslautern-Landau
82 UNIBE - Universität Bern / University of Bern
83 Universidad San Sebastian
84 Shenzhen University [Shenzhen]
85 UiT - The Arctic University of Norway [Tromsø, Norway]
Mare Ainsaar
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Magdalena Adamus
Mohamad Avicenna
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Markus Barth
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Edona Maloku
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Vladimíra Čavojová
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Marwan Diab
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Denisa Fedáková
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Renata Franc
Ilaria Giovannelli
Renzo Gismondi Diaz
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Eva Kundtová-Klocová
Anna Lindqvist
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Liany Luzvinda
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Thadeus Mkamwa
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David Mrisho
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Jana Nikitin
Nitya Rani
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Adil Samekin
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Marion Schulmeyer
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Kadri Soo
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Federica Spaccatini
Ines Sucic
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Résumé

Despite global commitments and efforts, a gender‐based division of paid and unpaid work persists. To identify how psychological factors, national policies, and the broader sociocultural context contribute to this inequality, we assessed parental‐leave intentions in young adults (18–30 years old) planning to have children ( N = 13,942; 8,880 identified as women; 5,062 identified as men) across 37 countries that varied in parental‐leave policies and societal gender equality. In all countries, women intended to take longer leave than men. National parental‐leave policies and women's political representation partially explained cross‐national variations in the gender gap. Gender gaps in leave intentions were paradoxically larger in countries with more gender‐egalitarian parental‐leave policies (i.e., longer leave available to both fathers and mothers). Interestingly, this cross‐national variation in the gender gap was driven by cross‐national variations in women's (rather than men's) leave intentions. Financially generous leave and gender‐egalitarian policies (linked to men's higher uptake in prior research) were not associated with leave intentions in men. Rather, men's leave intentions were related to their individual gender attitudes. Leave intentions were inversely related to career ambitions. The potential for existing policies to foster gender equality in paid and unpaid work is discussed.

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hal-04311853 , version 1 (28-11-2023)

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Maria Olsson, Sanne van Grootel, Katharina Block, Carolin Schuster, Loes Meeussen, et al.. Gender Gap in Parental Leave Intentions: Evidence from 37 Countries. Political Psychology, 2023, 44 (6), pp.1163-1192. ⟨10.1111/pops.12880⟩. ⟨hal-04311853⟩
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