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  • Sociologist and Assistant Professor at the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business, University of Waterloo
Too few Canadian fathers take parental leave. That’s because parental leave is framed as an employment policy rather than as care/work policy that promotes greater sharing of both paid and unpaid care work between parents. (Shutterstock)

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

Kim de Laat, University of Waterloo; Alyssa K Gerhardt, Dalhousie University, and Andrea Doucet, 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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