El Pais. 14/01/2011
The Scandinavian countries are the mirror of social welfare that looks half Europe. Guipúzcoa is no exception. Therefore, the General Meeting yesterday invited professor at Stockholm University Anita Nyberg, a global expert in balancing family and work, to present the model that prevails in those nations and the best formulas to achieve a harmony between home occupations and job duties. Nyberg believes it possible to abandon the old model of charging in women full weight of the chores and divide it equally between the couple. The actual recipe is "to approve a parental permission required that can not be transferred to the mothers."
Thus, Nyberg says, parents are forced into domestic work. This is the case in Sweden since 1994. "Norway was the first country that created a new model by offering the possibility of changing maternity leave for parental permission. Parents had the option to care for their children, but most did not stay at home. For this reason, in 1994 the Swedish government began granting one month of parental leave could not be transferred to the mother. The father had to stay a month with the children necessarily, "says Swedish expert.
Experience has shown that parental permission is required right and" is working very well "in his country. In the case of giving the option of choosing one of the parents, "the woman always ends up taking care of the childcare and housework. What we found is that the father stays at home only when you are not allowed to transfer that right to the mother. "
Nyberg argues that progress can be achieved in this area "rely heavily on the parties in power." In the case of Sweden, the Social Democrats, who have been ruling since the 60's until 2006, two months amounted to mandatory leave for parents. In Iceland, for example, went further: "Mothers have three months off, parents three months and then there are another three months for one of the two."
Professor Nyberg was not in favor of granting aid for the care of minors, as in his country and in Finland: "The Christian Democrat party, which is small but has a great influence in the current government has managed to pass a financial benefit for the care of children. The parent who stays at home receives 300 euros a month, but the mother usually stays. In Finland started with this feature in the mid 80's, but benefit from it for 80% of mothers in that country since lowered the rate of female labor force. Today is almost the norm to be the mother who is the mother caring for children until they turn three. I complain because this way we are increasing the gap of gender, class and ethnicity. "
Scandinavian Another key to success is that" when we started working with the settlement and gender equality changed the approach to stop focusing so much on women. In the EU conciliation talks like a thing that affects only women, while in the Scandinavian countries we have worked a lot on these issues also involve men.
recommends looking Nyberg also in the existing model of day care centers in those countries: "A key ingredient in reconciling the existence of state-funded childcare. Families with one unemployed member should have priority to get places. "
In your opinion, can not be lowered guard, because "if we lose we relax the level of gender equality dimensions we have achieved, as is happening in Finland. Instead, Iceland, which started later than us, is the first country in the ranking of equality of gender. "
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