Household bargaining over parental leave

我提出的研究将阐明政府和雇主应该实施什么样的育儿假改革，以促进工作分工和育儿责任方面的性别平等。关于父母身份对两性薪酬差距的关键作用的证据表明，有效的干预可以大大缩小欧洲国家的差距。减少劳动力市场的不平等意味着使个人在工作和育儿之间的时间分配能够由基本的偏好和能力而不是性别规范来驱动。因此，缩小劳动力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，改善父母和子女的福祉，提高对伴侣的满意度，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公司的人力资源部门讨论合作，这将使我的研究为该公司的育儿假计划改革提供信息。

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.