Improved employment policies can encourage fathers to be more involved at home

By Kim de Laat, Sociologist and Assistant Professor at the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business, University of Waterloo
Alyssa K Gerhardt, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University
Andrea Doucet, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Gender, Work, and Care, Brock University

If more Canadian fathers are to harness the benefits of parental leave and remote work, we need to design employment and care policies in ways that recognize every family’s unique needs.

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