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Happy new year from the LP&R! In 2024, we published our 20th annual International Review on Leave Policies and Related Research, with extensive data on maternity, paternity, parental, and related leaves from researchers in 50+ participating countries. leavenetwork.org/annual-revi…

Thank you also to Marie Gendron from the Conseil de gestion de l'assurance parentale (@Gouv_CGAP) for helping welcome our international members to the province of Québec!

Our Annual Seminar has begun! Special thanks to Karina Gould (@karinagould), Canada’s first Cabinet minister to take maternity leave, for sharing about her experience and helping the Canadian country team welcome international Network members to Montréal!

An absolute pleasure to have our very own @andreadoucet presenting her ongoing work on sustainability, care ethics, ecological care ethics, and care leaves for @ppl_sustainable at @TCRU_UCL – at London, England

New book alert! 📚 “At A Turning Point: Work, care and family policies in Australia,” edited by @ProfMarianBaird (LP&R Coordinator), Elizabeth Hill and @Sydney_Colussi looks at how women, families and communities struggle to navigate complex work and care demands in Australia.

We had a brilliant time together with our colleagues at #ESPAnet2023 in Warsaw. There was a great interest in our streams. Most importantly, we enjoyed each other’s company and took time to catch up.

We close our session with Marie Valentova’s ongoing work looking at the interplay among family policies whether there is a crowding out effect of cash for care policy on parental leave take-up. a Luxembourg case study funded by @FnrLux @LISERinLUX @LISER_LC

Now it’s @ManuFerragina’s turn presenting joint work with @EdoardoMagalini looking at maternal employment and childcare use from an intersectional perspective forthcoming in Social Politics #ESPAnet2023

Dimitrina Ivanova presented her work with @_AnnaKurowska where they studied the generosity and inclusiveness of European care policies using fuzzy clustering #ESPAnet2023