The European Commission, the Council and the European Parliament are discussing about the implementation of a directive that improves safety and health at work of pregnant workers, workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding. Improvement, according to this proposal, would be to grant women 20 continuous weeks of … Continue reading
The new European Parliament will debate again on the extension of maternity leave, without taking the fathers into consideration. This extension is intended to promote the fair treatment of mothers in the labour market, but with a blind eye to the indirect discrimination suffered by all women because of motherhood. … Continue reading
Nordiskt Forum Malmö 2014 New Action on Women’s Rights is a conference arranged by the women’s rights movement of the Nordic countries. From June 12th – 15th 2014, around 15,000 people are expected to gather in Malmö, Sweden, to shape new strategies to promote gender equality and end discrimination against … Continue reading
Iceland is one of the countries where PLENT is present. Thanks to many helpful and sympathizing persons, we got an interview with the Prime Minister, Johanna Sigurðardóttir One morning of October 2008, the Icelandic citizenship abruptly woke up from a decade of neo-liberal anaesthesia, listening in the news that their … Continue reading
This post is the first of a series that we want to produce regularly in order to present useful information, opinions, and data about Equal, Non-transferable and Fully Paid Parental Leave. This first post intends to present a video with an interview to Janet Gornick, Professor of Political Science and … Continue reading
Several members of PLENT have presented a project proposal on Building the case for Parental Leave to be Equal, Non-Transferable and fully-paid (BestPLENT) to the European Commission on February 2013, which should be resolved around June (Call for PROGRESS). The researcher and activist María Pazos, on behalf of the Institute … Continue reading
I.- INTRODUCTION Throughout the 20th century women have achieved civil rights and have massively joined formal education and employment; nevertheless, there is yet a long way left to achieve effective equality. Inequality between maternity and paternity leave is one of the elements both reflecting and reinforcing obsolete patterns of … Continue reading
PLENT was founded in Madrid (Spain) on December 10th 2010. It’s first official presentation was on 11th December, at the framework of the 2nd EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ‘From Daddy Quotas to Care Parity: For Equality, Equal Leave Rights’ organized by the Spanish Platform for Equal and Non-Transferable Parental Leave (PPIINA). Roundtable … Continue reading
