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DESCRIPTION:Does fathers’ leave\, a policy intervention that disrupts tradi
 tional gender roles\, promote more&nbsp\;gender-equitable attitudes? We ex
 amine this question by studying a policy reform in Estonia that&nbsp\;trip
 led the length of fathers’ leave for children born on or after July 1\, 20
 20. The reform promoted&nbsp\;fathers as care givers – it offered both par
 ents the opportunity to conceive of their social roles in a&nbsp\;less tra
 ditional fashion and to thereby reassess traditional beliefs about the app
 ropriate roles and&nbsp\;essential traits of men and women. Using an innov
 ative design\, we combine this natural&nbsp\;experiment with a unique surv
 ey of new parents whose children were born in the six months&nbsp\;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.&nbsp\;Support for positive action pol
 icies\, which promote women at the expense of men\, only increased&nbsp\;a
 mong mothers but not fathers. We also examine the response of the general 
 public to the&nbsp\;reform\, based on an informational\, indirect treatmen
 t (in contrast to direct exposure of new&nbsp\;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&nbsp\;given the continued prevalence of at
 titudinal gender bias even in developed democracies.Margit Tavits is the W
 illiam Taussig Professor in Arts      and&nbsp\;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&nbsp\;gender-equitable
  attitudes? We examine this question by studying a policy reform in Estoni
 a that&nbsp\;tripled the length of fathers’ leave for children born on or 
 after July 1\, 2020. The reform promoted&nbsp\;fathers as care givers – it
  offered both parents the opportunity to conceive of their social roles in
  a&nbsp\;less traditional fashion and to thereby reassess traditional beli
 efs about the appropriate roles and&nbsp\;essential traits of men and wome
 n. Using an innovative design\, we combine this natural&nbsp\;experiment w
 ith a unique survey of new parents whose children were born in the six mon
 ths&nbsp\;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.&nbsp\;Support for po
 sitive action policies\, which promote women at the expense of men\, only 
 increased&nbsp\;among mothers but not fathers. We also examine the respons
 e of the general public to the&nbsp\;reform\, based on an informational\, 
 indirect treatment (in contrast to direct exposure of new&nbsp\;parents) a
 nd find no effects. These results show that direct exposure to progressive
  social policy&nbsp\;has the power to weaken patriarchal attitudes\, a fin
 ding that is of considerable practical relevance&nbsp\;given the continued
  prevalence of attitudinal gender bias even in developed democracies.<br><
 br><p><strong>Margit Tavits</strong> is the William Taussig Professor in A
 rts      and&nbsp\;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.</p>
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