Parental Leave Reforms in Finland 1977–2019 from a Diversity Perspective

In Finland, all parents, regardless of gender, are eligible for parental leave and there no restrictive eligibility criteria. practice, however, the statutory options not equally available to parents. Since 1970s, steps have been taken in redesigning scheme make it more inclusive. Several reforms made promote equality, mainly between women men, but also diverse families, such as adoptive multiple-birth families or same-sex parent families. The ‘demotherisation’ parental-leave rights has slowly shifted focus from biological mothers fathers non-biological most recent reforms, widened equality parents include children form family that they born adopted into.