Household bargaining over parental leave

我提出的研究将阐明政府和雇主应该实施哪些育儿假改革，以促进工作和育儿责任分工中的性别平等。有证据表明，为人父母在性别薪酬差距中扮演着至关重要的角色，有效的干预措施可能会大幅缩小欧洲国家的性别薪酬差距。减少劳动力市场的不平等意味着使个人在工作和照看孩子之间的时间分配能够由潜在的偏好和能力驱动，而不是性别规范。因此，缩小劳动性别差距可以提高员工满意度和生产率，推动宏观经济增长，改善父母和孩子的福祉，提高对伴侣的满意度，并减少家庭暴力。我计划与IFS和BEIS等组织合作，传播我的研究结果。此外，我正在与一家大型跨国雇主的人力资源部门讨论一项合作，我的研究将为该公司的育儿假计划提供改革建议。

My proposed research will shed light into what parental leave reforms governments and employers should implement to promote gender equality in the division of work and childcare responsibilities. Evidence on the crucial role of parenthood on the gender pay gap suggests effective intervention could substantially narrow the gap in European countries. Reducing labour market inequality means enabling individuals' allocation of time between work and childcare to be driven by underlying preferences and abilities rather than gender norms. Decreasing the labour gender gap could therefore increase employee satisfaction and productivity, drive macroeconomic growth, improve parents' and children's wellbeing, increase satisfaction with partners, and reduce violence within households.I plan to cooperate with organisations such as the IFS and BEIS to disseminate my findings. Moreover, I am discussing a collaboration with the HR department of a large multinational employer, which would see my research informing reforms to that firm's parental leave scheme.