Exploring the domestic parental leave allowance policy : Take female applicants in Taipei County as examples
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Fang, Ting-Yu
Abstract
The "Gender Equality Employment Law" stipulated that the provisions of maternity leave in 2002, but the design that the parental leave holidays without pay have been being repeatedly questioned, and in 2009 finally the government amended "Employment Insurance Act" which officially stipulated that the employees are in order to receive 60% of pay as a subsidy allowance in parental leave period, in this paper, it goes from the points of view of manifest function and latent function in Robert K. Merton''s structural functionalism, to analysis the motives and policy objectives of this policy making, and explore the policy could potential impact.
Except for that this study explores the parental leave allowance policies in some country''s, it also mainly uses the depth interview method to proceed the research with 10 professional women who have experiences of application for parental leave allowance in Taipei County, and to explore the motivation of applications and problems they might face after the applications from female applicants'' perspective, and to compare it with the policy intended purpose. Through the depth interviews it is found that, the respondents affirm the policy of that in the parental leave period it is paid 60% of salary as subsidized benefits measures, but they also think that being able to accompany with their children''s growing up is more worthy than 60% paid benefits, and in the same time they say the policy does not raise any more wishes to to give birth to children. The Applicants in the will of gender application, in addition to be affected by the ideology of traditional gender division of labor, the system of 60% wage allowance has also become the of the an important factor for those double income families to consider the opportunity cost, This study makes suggestions for the policies and future researches in the final chapter.
Subjects
parental allowance
leave without pay
60% salary benefits
parental leave
gender division of labor
SDGs
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