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DESCRIPTION:Does fathers’ leave\, a policy intervention that disrupts tradi
tional gender roles\, promote more \;gender-equitable attitudes? We ex
amine this question by studying a policy reform in Estonia that \;trip
led the length of fathers’ leave for children born on or after July 1\, 20
20. The reform promoted \;fathers as care givers – it offered both par
ents the opportunity to conceive of their social roles in a \;less tra
ditional fashion and to thereby reassess traditional beliefs about the app
ropriate roles and \;essential traits of men and women. Using an innov
ative design\, we combine this natural \;experiment with a unique surv
ey of new parents whose children were born in the six months \;before
(N = 614) and after (N = 748) the reform. The reform led to a sizeable ris
e in gender-egalitarian views in the economic\, social\, and political dom
ains among both mothers and fathers. \;Support for positive action pol
icies\, which promote women at the expense of men\, only increased \;a
mong mothers but not fathers. We also examine the response of the general
public to the \;reform\, based on an informational\, indirect treatmen
t (in contrast to direct exposure of new \;parents) and find no effect
s. These results show that direct exposure to progressive social policy&nb
sp\;has the power to weaken patriarchal attitudes\, a finding that is of c
onsiderable practical relevance \;given the continued prevalence of at
titudinal gender bias even in developed democracies.Margit Tavits is the W
illiam Taussig Professor in Arts and \;Sciences and Chair of the
Department of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis
. She specializes in comparative politics and her research interests
include political parties\, political institutions\, corruption\, pos
t-communist politics\, and gender equality.
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SUMMARY:How Fathers’ Leave Affects Attitudinal Gender Equality
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Does fathers’ leave\, a policy intervention th
at disrupts traditional gender roles\, promote more \;gender-equitable
attitudes? We examine this question by studying a policy reform in Estoni
a that \;tripled the length of fathers’ leave for children born on or
after July 1\, 2020. The reform promoted \;fathers as care givers – it
offered both parents the opportunity to conceive of their social roles in
a \;less traditional fashion and to thereby reassess traditional beli
efs about the appropriate roles and \;essential traits of men and wome
n. Using an innovative design\, we combine this natural \;experiment w
ith a unique survey of new parents whose children were born in the six mon
ths \;before (N = 614) and after (N = 748) the reform. The reform led
to a sizeable rise in gender-egalitarian views in the economic\, social\,
and political domains among both mothers and fathers. \;Support for po
sitive action policies\, which promote women at the expense of men\, only
increased \;among mothers but not fathers. We also examine the respons
e of the general public to the \;reform\, based on an informational\,
indirect treatment (in contrast to direct exposure of new \;parents) a
nd find no effects. These results show that direct exposure to progressive
social policy \;has the power to weaken patriarchal attitudes\, a fin
ding that is of considerable practical relevance \;given the continued
prevalence of attitudinal gender bias even in developed democracies.
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Margit Tavits is the William Taussig Professor in A rts and \;Sciences and Chair of the Department of Political Scien ce at Washington University in St. Louis. She specializes in comparat ive politics and her research interests include political parties\, p olitical institutions\, corruption\, post-communist politics\, and ge nder equality.
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