Pia S. Schober

TL;DR: The authors examined the importance of prenatal characteristics of men and women in couples for how they change their time spent on housework and paid work after the transition to parenthood, focusing on both partners' earnings and gender role attitudes as explanatory factors.

TL;DR: The authors examined how changes in gender role attitudes of couples after childbirth relate to women's paid work and the type of childcare used and found that less traditional attitudes among women and men are more likely in couples where women's postnatal labour market participation and the use of formal childcare contradict their traditional prenatal attitudes.

TL;DR: Following two parental leave reforms in West Germany, the authors explored how child care and housework time changed among couples who have just had a child and found a significant reduction in paternal child care time 18 to thirty months after childbirth among couples with children born after the 1992 reform.

TL;DR: This article examined how changes in gender role attitudes of couples after childbirth relate to women's paid work and the type of childcare used and found that less traditional attitudes among women and men are more likely in couples where women's postnatal labour market participation and the use of formal childcare contradict their traditional prenatal attitudes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how children aged zero to 6 years with migration background and those who live with lone parents, or on low income or social assistance differ from other less disadvantaged groups in their use of formal ECEC services and non-formal education activities.