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ArticleCanadian public policy. Analyse de politiques2020

Reconceptualizing Parental Leave Benefits in COVID-19 Canada: From Employment Policy to Care and Social Protection Policy.

Andrea Doucet, Sophie Mathieu, Lindsey McKay

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Article in Canadian public policy. Analyse de politiques, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  1. Predictors of COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Pregnancy Stress: Prenatal and Postpartum Experiences in Canada.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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  2. Equity Lens on Canada's COVID-19 Response: Review of the Literature.International journal of health policy and management · 2024
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Andrea DoucetDepartment of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario.
Sophie MathieuSchool of Business Administration, Université TÉLUQ, Québec City, Québec, and Department of Sociology, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario.
Lindsey McKayDepartment of Sociology and Anthropology, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spurred critical and much-needed attention to re-thinking policy approaches to child care and long-term elder care, little focus has been given to its implications for parental leave policies and parental benefits for the care of infants and young children. This article is about reconceptualizing and reconfiguring employment-based parental leave policies in Canada both during and after COVID-19. Informed by theoretical insights from the fields of care economies, feminist political economy, and care and social reproduction and by national and international parental leave research, we argue that it is time to reconceptualize parental leave benefits not only as employment policy but also as a care and social protection policy. To make this shift, we explore three topic areas: a mixed system of parental benefits that combine employment-based and citizenship-based entitlements, connections between policy design and gender equality, and the need for robust intersectional data to track which Canadian families are receiving parental benefits.

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CanadacareCOVID-19gender and intersectional equalityparental leave policysocial protection

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PMID38629984
PMCPMC8229861

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