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States, Employers, and Gender Equality.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	States, Employers, and Gender Equality.
作者:	Latura, Audrey Shannon.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021
面頁冊數:	197 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-02, Section: A.
附註:	Advisor: Iversen, Torben.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-02A.
標題:	Political science.
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28498036
ISBN:	9798534672091

States, Employers, and Gender Equality.
Latura, Audrey Shannon.

States, Employers, and Gender Equality. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 197 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

How do states impact whether employers provide work-family benefits like childcare and paid family leave, especially in national contexts of low social policy spending? What out- comes for women’s professional advancement and gender equality more broadly should we expect from these interventions? And what does public opinion tell us about what people think employers ought to be doing privately that the state is not? I explore these questions in this three-paper dissertation.In Chapter 1, I begin by looking at on-site childcare benefits provided privately by em- ployers in the liberal welfare states of Canada and the United Sates, two countries without universal, publicly-available childcare. Using an original panel dataset of high-revenue Cana- dian and US companies, I use a difference-in-differences design to show that state childcare regulation in the United States and provincial subsidies in Canada that include employers, especially in the province of Quebec, increase the supply of on-site childcare. I then deploy a field experiment to show how greater provision of on-site childcare results in greater female demand for the benefit and, in turn, greater professional advancement.In Chapter 2, a paper co-authored with Ana Catalano Weeks, we look at how corporate board gender quotas produce feedback effects on company policies that lead to greater gen- der equality. With a difference-in-differences approach, we use an original panel dataset of corporate reports from Italy, where a board quota was instituted, to Greece, where one was not. We look at changes in company programs and policies beyond the board, especially in the areas of women’s leadership throughout the company, childcare, paid leave, and schedul-ing flexibility. Qualitative analysis helps understand the context in which companies make iiithese changes to their internal policies.Finally, in Chapter 3, I look at political preferences for work-family benefits providedby employers rather than the government. I use two case studies – the first with com- parative survey data and the second with an original survey of veterans who have used employer-provided childcare through the US Department of Defense – to understand how organizational and individual experience with employer benefits shapes preference for them. Qualitative interviews with veterans shed light on some of the potential mechanisms behind these pathways.In each chapter, I discuss the political and policy implications of these findings, especially for women, who are the main of childcare and paid family leave as the primary caretakers of children.

ISBN: 9798534672091Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Political science.
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Childcare

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