Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 5 · Licensed source edition
Work and children in Spain: challenges and opportunities for equality between men and women
Originally published 2021-10-04 · Series
Springer Science and Business Media LLC · DOI 10.1007/s13209-021-00243-7 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Examines employment, part-time work and temporary contracts alongside childcare and leave policies, challenging an account based on preferences alone.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Respect
Are parents’ work patterns freely chosen or shaped by unequal options?
Examines employment, part-time work and temporary contracts alongside childcare and leave policies, challenging an account based on preferences alone.
Study context
Spanish labor-market gender comparisons, including adults with children under 16.
Age / stage: Working-age adults; children under 16 in key comparisons.
Read with three questions
- How did employment gaps differ for women and men with children under 16?
- What evidence was offered for childcare, paternity leave and tax-policy responses?
- Why might policy change and gender-role change need to be examined together?
Keep the limits in view
A national evidence review cannot attribute every individual employment pattern to one mechanism; policy examples reflect particular study periods and institutional contexts.
The text below is the original article’s licensed repository edition. Its wording is not rewritten. Use the Paper Agent beside the text to locate evidence; open the source for figures, tables and complete context.
Opening the verified paper and agent…
Checking the article identity, license record, and saved source text.
Open the repository recordAttribution & reuse
Follow the original.
Original authorship, publication date, journal and DOI are preserved. This issue’s TRICK placement and reading questions are editorial additions, not claims made by the original authors.
Claudia Hupkau; Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela (2021). Work and children in Spain: challenges and opportunities for equality between men and women Series. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13209-021-00243-7
Permissions checked against the saved article notice; repository publication notices screened 2026-11-05. This is not a new peer-review decision. The source authors and publishers are not represented as endorsing this issue.