Analysis Of The Family Policy Between Sweden And South Korea

The Nordic states are famous for having developed welfare system. Also, it is well known that these countries are successful to achieve the small gender gap. One of the identified possible efforts to made such result is generous and wide-ranging family policies. Family policies include many aims, and one of the aim to carry out the family policies is to make better gender equality. Thus, to consider the family policies is useful to think about gender equality. Therefore, in this paper, I compare with the two texts that are written in terms of family policies, especially about parental leave, and analyze the relationship between family policies and gender equality. The article, “How Can Family Policies Reconcile Fertility and Women's Employment? Comparisons
As a result, the big disparity between men and women showed up in gender wage gap rate. To sum up, parental leave system of Sweden is more flexible and fair for both men and women, and one of the big difference between the two states is whether they have not only just parental leave but also legislated parental leave period for the father or not. Through various numbers and different systems that are described above, I can find that generous supports and equal responsibilities are important factors to narrow the gender wage gap and redress gender equality. In addition, because of the introduction of parental leave for men, the Nordic nations have positive outcome as for sharing of unpaid work, and unlike South Korea that has no legislated parental leave for men, Sweden has high women’s employment rate which is almost the same rate of men. Thus, fatherhood may somewhat reduce the burden of women and be a contributory factor to support increase fertility and women’s social advancement. Therefore, when a country succeeds to grow women’s participation in the labor market, the gender gap will shrink at the same