The Fatherhood Institute welcomes new Women and Equalities Committee' proposal, which could cut gender pay gap and pregnancy discrimination, support fathering, equalise home-life – and even lead to a ‘post-Brexit baby boom’.
The WEC has recommends a new “use-it-or-lose-it” 3 months benefit, available to fathers and second parents in their baby’s first year, paid at 90% of salary for the first month.
Adrienne Burgess, the Fatherhood Institute’s co-Chief Executive, said it could have "a huge impact", boosting children’s outcomes and improving parental relationships and lowering rates of separation, as well as beginning to put men and women on similar footings at work. Read the full story »
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This blog was published by CLOSER (Cohort & Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources), which is located at the UCL Institute of Education and brings together eight leading studies, the British Library and the UK Data Service.
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The Fatherhood Institute (UK charity number 1075104) is a small charity that has been working behind the scenes to raise the profile of ‘involved fatherhood’ since 1999.
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Fathers’ Story Week is upon us – creating an opportunity for schools and early years centres to take part in an annual celebration of fatherhood, from 11-18 June 2017.
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Jeremy Davies writes:
Parenting leave experts always knew that Shared Parental Leave (SPL) would disappoint. The international evidence is clear: if governments are serious about encouraging large numbers of fathers to take substantial periods of leave during the baby’s first year (as they should be if they are serious about tackling the gender pay gap and improving children’s outcomes), they need to do two things.
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Jeremy Davies writes:
When we launched our Fairness In Families Index yesterday, our press release highlighted that ‘UK mums and dads are the worst in the world at sharing childcare’.
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Jeremy Davies writes:
Today we publish the 2016 edition of our Fairness in Families Index #fairnessinfamilies, which uses a basket of measures to compare developed countries’ progress towards gender equality.
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Bringing Fathers In is a series of smart, punchy, evidence-based information sheets backed up with a series of online research summaries.
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Are you (or is somebody you know) a first-time father? Researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London, are interested in exploring first-time fathers’ experiences of labour and childbirth.
