Brexit is forecast to have a damaging effect on gender equality as we will no longer be governed by the framework of EU employment strategies and directives in relation to childcare targets, equal treatment of men and women, gender mainstreaming, maternity and parental leave (as explored by Fagan and Rubery). This makes exploring what enables and hinders fathers (and mothers) paid and unpaid work more important to continue than ever.
I look forward to continuing research in this netherlands rcs data area and wonder where it will take me next.
Read Helen’s case study: Which fathers are involved in looking after their children? Identifying the conditions associated with paternal involvement
Helen Norman is a Senior Research Fellow at Leeds University Business School.
Prior to that, she worked at the University of Manchester as a Research fellow (2017-20) and Research Associate (2011-16) in Sociology after she completed her ESRC-funded PhD in Social Statistics in 2011. Helen was awarded funding from the ESRC’s Secondary Data Analysis Initiative in 2016 to develop her doctoral research exploring fathers’ childcare involvement using longitudinal data from the Millennium Cohort Study. She also advises the European Commission on gender equality policy as a member of its Expert Network on Employment and Gender Equality.