In several countries, various ways of motivating men to take parental leave were introduced. One was to make some leave available only to fathers (Mundy, 2014, p. 17). “The brilliance of ‘daddy days,’ as this solution came to be know, is that, rather than feeling stigmatized for taking time off from their jobs, many men now feel stigmatized if they don’t” (Mundy, 2014, p. 17). According to Mundy, when Quebec implemented “daddy days,” the number of men taking paternity leave increased from “10 percent in 2001 to more than 80 percent in 2010” (2014, p. 18). When more men take parental leave, it defeminizes the leave and increases gender equality in the workplace. It becomes “normal” to take time for family care purposes, and the motherhood …show more content…
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