Family policy is aimed at neutralising, or at least lessening, the negative impact of psychological, social and economic constraints for forming families and having the desired/greater number of children. Financial and other family policy measures reconcile the objectives of strengthening families, offering equal opportunities to men and women, and increasing the well-being of individuals and f...

Bird, Surgn.-Capt R., Resdt. Surgn., Medl. Coll. Hosptl., in modification of previous notification, to act as Professor of Anatomy, Medl. Coll., and 2nd Surgeon, Medl. Coll. Hosptl., Calcutta, during the absence, on leave, of Surgn.? Maj. R. H. Charles, or until further orders. Drury, Surgn.-Capt. F. J., Offg. Civil Surgn , 24-Parganas, to act as Professor of Midwifery, Medl. Coll., Calcutta, i...

from leave, to the Fatelipur district. Henderson, Surgn.-Capt. S. H., Supernumerary Civil Surgn., Fatehpur, on relief by Surgn.-Major Gr. A. Emerson, to be attached for duty to the Central Prison, Bareilly, as a temporary measure. Chaytor-YVhite, Surgn.-Capt. J., Supernumerary Civil Surgn., Mirzapur, on relief by Surgn.-Major P. J. Freyer, is attached to the Allahabad district as a temporary me...

This study combines data at individual and area level to examine interactions between equality within couples and gender equality in the municipality in which individuals live. The research question is whether the context impacts on the association between gender equality and health. The material consists of data on 37,423 men and 37,616 women in 279 Swedish municipalities, who had their first ...

Despite the continued increase in female participation rates, Australia remains one of only two developed nations in the world without a paid maternity leave scheme. While research interest and public policy debate about paid maternity leave entitlements continues, little is known about the actual utilization of the 52 weeks unpaid parental leave that is currently available to all employees. Mo...

Typologies have represented an important tool for the development of comparative social policy research and continue to be widely used in spite of growing criticism of their ability to capture the complexity of welfare states and their internal heterogeneity. In particular, debates have focused on the presence of hybrid cases and the existence of distinct cross-national pattern of variation acr...

Many family caregivers of older adults suffer from a high burden of care and struggle with the balance of jobs and caregiving tasks. However, the United States is the only developed country without paid sick leave policies for all workers and their families. The purpose of this article is to review the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and empirical studies about paid sick policy, pro...

Using personnel records from a single large German firm in the financial industry, this paper provides detailed evidence on the effect of age and the supervisor’s gender on gender differences in workplace training, holding constant various workplace characteristics. We implement an age-specific decomposition of the incidence and the duration of training into three terms: an age-specific coeffic...