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dc.contributor.authorDoucet, Andrea
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-15T14:10:44Z
dc.date.available2021-06-15T14:10:44Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationSocial Inclusion, 9/2 (2021) 227-237en_US
dc.identifier.issn2183-2803
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/15115
dc.description.abstractHow can parental leave design be more socially inclusive? Should all parents be entitled to parental benefits or only those parents who are eligible based on a particular level of labour market participation? To think through questions of social inclusion in parental leave policy design, particularly issues related to entitlements to benefits, I make three arguments. First, aiming to extend Dobrotić and Blum’s work on entitlements to parental benefits, I argue that ‘mixed systems’ that include both citizenship‐based and employment‐based benefits are just and socially inclusive approaches to parental leaves and citizenship. Second, to build a robust conceptual scaffolding for a ‘mixed’ benefits approach, I argue that that we need to attend to the histories and relationalities of the concepts and conceptual narratives that implicitly or explicitly inform parental leave policies and scholarship. Third, and more broadly, I argue that a metanarrative of care and work binaries underpins most scholarship and public and policy discourses on care work and paid work and on social policies, including parental leave policies. In this article, I outline revisioned conceptual narratives of care and work relationalities, arguing that they can begin to chip away at this metanarrative and that this kind of un‐thinking and rethinking can help us to envi‐ sion parental leave beyond employment policy—as care and work policy. Specifically, I focus on conceptual narratives that combine (1) care and work intra‐connections, (2) ethics of care and justice, and (3) ‘social care,’ ‘caring with,’ transforma‐ tive social protection, and social citizenship. Methodologically and epistemologically, this article is guided by my reading of Margaret Somers’ genealogical and relational approach to concepts, conceptual narratives, and metanarratives, and it is written in a Global North socio‐economic context marked by the COVID‐19 pandemic and 21st century neoliberalism.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherCogitatio Pressen_US
dc.subjectCareen_US
dc.subjectCare and justiceen_US
dc.subjectConceptual narrativesen_US
dc.subjectHistorical sociology of concept formationen_US
dc.subjectParental leaveen_US
dc.subjectParenting leavesen_US
dc.subjectSocial careen_US
dc.subjectSocial citizenshipen_US
dc.subjectTransformative social protectionen_US
dc.titleSocially Inclusive Parenting Leaves and Parental Benefit Entitlements: Rethinking Care and Work Binariesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.17645/si.v9i2.4003
refterms.dateFOA2021-08-18T01:39:34Z


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