Abstract:Government can construct the concept of gender through providing different kinds of childcare leave schemes to parents, and the five Nordic states have taken many measures that have influence in the world. This essay focuses on the transformations of childcare leave policies, include maternity leave, paternity leave, parental leave and parental leave quota, designed and implemented by the Nordic countries during the past fifty to sixty years. The essay also summarizes and analyzes the on-going changes in gender ideology behind the reforms of these policies. The last section of the essay examines a few controversial issues relating to childcare leave policies which have been debated in the Nordic countries: equality versus equity, individual freedom versus state intervention, and sameness versus difference.
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