Gender Bias in Parental Leave: Evidence from Sweden |
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Authors: | Elly-Ann Lindström |
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Affiliation: | 1. Uppsala Center for Labor Studies, Uppsala University, Box 513, SE-751 20, Uppsala, Sweden
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Abstract: | This paper estimates the effect of child gender on mothers’ and fathers’ parental leave using population-wide register data from Statistics Sweden and the Swedish Social Insurance Agency. The results showed that a first-born son increased fathers’ parental leave with 0.6 days (1.5 %) and decreased mothers’ leave by a similar amount. Both the sign and size of this effect is in line with previous research, showing that these types of biases exist also in a society with top ratings on gender equality. However, non-traditional families, with high maternal relative earnings and/or educational levels, showed even larger gender biases which suggest that it may be mothers, rather than fathers, that are the driving force behind this child gender bias. |
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