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• Can fathers' leave take-up dismantle gendered parental responsibilities? Evidence from Finland 

  Eerola, Petteri; Närvi, Johanna; Lammi-Taskula, Johanna (Universitatsbibliothek Bamberg, 2022)

  Objective: This article reports on the associations of fathers' leave take-up with parents' care responsibilities when their child is around four years old. Background: In families with small children women continue to ...

• Nurturing, breadwinning, and upbringing: paternal responsibilities by Finnish men in early fatherhood 

  Eerola, Petteri (Routledge, 2014)

  In the Nordic countries, including Finland, gender-balanced distribution of childcare is both the goal of family policies and nowadays also a cultural norm of parenting. Thus, in most families, the father, along with the ...

• “I feel many contradictory emotions” : Finnish mothers' discursive struggles with motherhood 

  Raudasoja, Mirjam; Sorkkila, Matilda; Laitila, Aarno; Aunola, Kaisa (Wiley, 2022)

  Objective The aim of the study was to facilitate the understanding and interpretation of multiple aspects of working with mothers by examining Finnish mothers' mothering discourses and the interplay among these ...

• Fathers’ Leave Take-Up in Finland : Motivations and Barriers in a Complex Nordic Leave Scheme 

  Eerola, Petteri; Lammi-Taskula, Johanna; O’Brien, Margaret; Hietamäki, Johanna; Räikkönen, Eija (Sage Publications, Inc., 2019)

  Despite being the first country in the world to introduce paternity leave in 1978, Finland’s current national leave scheme is complex with regard to incentivizing fathers’ take-up. Taking the unique Finnish leave scheme ...

• “Equally, but in our own way” : First-time parents’ prenatal expectations of coparenting 

  Ranta, Minna; Böök, Marja Leena; Paloniemi, Susanna; Rönkä, Anna (Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2022)

  This study examined the expectations of expectant first-time parents on coparenting in a Finnish two-parent family. Thirty expectant couples were individually interviewed (N = 60) during the third trimester of pregnancy. ...