"State Pay" And "Father Quota" For Maternity Leave In Norway

Norway has both the Gender Equality Act and the "Gender Equality Act".

"A series of laws and regulations, there are specialized agencies and appeals tribunals that specifically monitor the issue of equality and accept complaints.

Governments, trade unions, employers' organizations and even enterprises have the responsibility to promote the equitable distribution of wealth, rights and responsibilities between the sexes.

Of course, if the concept of equality between men and women is better, if there is no corresponding measures to support it, it will only become empty talk.

To help women remove workplace barriers, first of all, we should properly handle the problem of child birth in workplace women.

In Norway, there are two choices of maternity leave for 49 weeks and 59 weeks.

Choosing the former, the vacationers can get 100% of the salary and choose the latter to get 80%.

The cost is entirely covered by the state social security, and no direct payment is required by the employer.

In the allocation of maternity leave, at least 3 weeks in the prenatal rest, 10 weeks after birth belong to the mother, 10 weeks is a father, can not be pferred, the remaining 26 weeks (or 36 weeks) is free to choose.

Giving fathers the quota of paid maternity leave that can not be pferred is a pioneering work launched by Norway in 1993.

Since 1970s, the law stipulates that both parents have the right.

But in reality, mothers usually rest.

In 1993, only 3% of Norway fathers had maternity leave.

Today, this proportion has exceeded 90%, many of which are longer than the quota period.

Now many people lament the fact that the baby daddy who walks with her baby is a scene on the streets of Norway. Many Norway men also say that they like to bring children.

Of course, this so-called "Daddy quota" is also a controversial topic. The time limit has been revised several times. In 1993, it only had 4 weeks, and it had reached 14 weeks in 2013, and now it has reduced to 10 weeks.

Opponents believe that this provision violates the right of family free choice.

Advocates believe that this will enable mothers to resume work, develop their talents and promote the sustainable development of social economy.

At the same time, Norway also has a matching policy: children can go to kindergarten when they are one year old.

In recent years, through legislation, Norway has incorporated kindergartens into the national education system. It requires local governments to meet the requirements of children aged 1 to 5 years of age. At the same time, public and private kindergartens should be supervised and subsidized equally, so that admission fees will be maintained at a reasonable level.

This shows that after the end of about a year's paid maternity leave, families in Norway can send their children to kindergartens.

Some studies suggest that this will help parents, especially mothers, to return to work in a timely manner, promote equality between men and women, increase family income, reduce family needs for informal care such as private nannies, and help to narrow the development gap of children in different income families, and promote the fair development of the whole society in the long run.

"Glass ceiling" is a lot.

Intangible obstacles on the road of promotion.

Norway is also facing problems in this regard, and has also been "desperate" for this.

In 2003, Norway introduced a law to create the world's precedent, forcing all members of the board of public limited companies to have no less than 40% members of any gender.

The actual situation at that time was that women directors accounted for only 7%. Such a huge improvement was staggering.

When the policy came out, the objection was also very strong.

It has been criticized for violating the principle of market freedom, and there are doubts about the possibility of finding so many qualified female directors.

However, it turns out that by 2008, all enterprises had reached the standard.

Over the years, Norway has strongly supported and encouraged women's employment, and the proportion of women receiving higher education and participating in work has increased significantly, playing an important role in all walks of life.

For example, the number of female judges in Norway has reached 40%, and more than half of the foreign ambassadors are women.

As early as 1981, the highest "glass ceiling" in Norway's politics was also broken, and the first female prime minister in the history of the country appeared.

Even so, Norway has problems and shortcomings in terms of equality between men and women.

On the whole, the wages of women in Norway are still lower than men.

Most of the top executives are still male, while women account for only about 30%.

The proportion of women in the public sector, the medical care sector and the non full-time employees is on the high side.

The proportion of female entrepreneurship is still significantly lower than that of men.

This shows that the impact of traditional concepts and implicit discrimination still exists, and targeted long-term efforts are still needed.

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