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Margunn Bjørnholt

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Margunn Bjørnholt is a sociologist based in Oslo, Norway. She is an expert on work–family arrangements and gender equality, and, in particular, men's role and agency in social change towards more egalitarian work–family arrangements. She is currently director of Policy and Social Research, and has formerly been a researcher at the University of Oslo and the Work Research Institute, as well as a civil servant and business consultant involved in the promotion of female entrepreneurship. She has served as a national expert on gender equality to the European Commission and is Vice President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights.

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Daddy Leave: A Panacea for Gender Inequality?

(1) Comments | Posted June 15, 2012 | 7:02 PM

In Norway 97 percent of fathers take daddy leave. The expectations are high, but does it lead to gender equality?

As a family researcher from Norway doing research on men, work and family, I often find myself trying to dissuade other family researchers and policymakers, both at home...

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