El País )14.01.2016) Los padres de niños que nazcan en 2016 y trabajen como dependientes podrán reclamar hasta 13 días consecutivos de licencia por paternidad para estar con el recién nacido, mientras que los no dependientes tendrán 10 días. Asimismo, en función de quién lo decida concretar, una vez terminada la licencia maternal de 14 semanas, madre o padre podrán trabajar medio horario hasta los seis meses de edad del bebé.

worldbank.org (27.01.2016) More than 3,500 people, including Presidents and Prime Ministers, have gathered in Bali this week for the fourth International Conference on Family Planning . The unmet need for family planning is an urgent human right and development issue. We’ve no more time to lose!

IrishTimes(26.01.2016)The Government will today agree to legislate to allow for fathers to take two weeks’ paid paternal leave.

includeplatform.net (26.01.2016) Applying a gender lens to social protection policies is necessary to reduce inequality between men and women and make development more inclusive. This is the main message from a new paper by Julie Newton for INCLUDE, ‘Making Social Protection Gender Sensitive for Inclusive Development in Sub-Saharan Africa’.

France Soir (14.01.2016) Père au foyer: demander un congé parental pour s'occuper de ses enfants reste très minoritaire en Corée du Sud. Le gouvernement encourage la population à faire ce choix, pour stimuler la natalité dans un pays où la vie économique est largement dominée par les hommes.

Quartz (06.01.2016) Sweden really wants dads to take paternity leave. Sweden became the first country in the world to replace maternity leave with parental leave in 1974, with time off that either parent could take. While the onus was no longer on women to take time off work for childcare, the new law didn’t dramatically change gender roles with childcare. Mothers were still taking the vast majority of leave and the few men who did take it were nicknamed “velvet dads.”

El País/English (06.01.2016) Two weeks after the birth of his second son, Asier Bidaure returned to his job at an employment center. “I hadn’t slept properly for days,” he says. “It was really tough.”

Channel News Asia (04.01.2016) Today reports: The nature of the job and workplace culture are two hurdles for increasing the adoption of flexible work arrangements however, says NUS sociologist Paulin Straughan.

The Sydney Morning Herald (16.12.2015) The Turnbull government has confirmed it is backing away from unpopular changes to paid parental leave proposed under Tony Abbott that saw new parents who claimed work and government entitlements accused of being "double dippers".

Europa (18.11.2015) The European Commission has today launched a public consultation on how to improve work-life balance and reduce obstacles to women's participation in the labour market, thereby contributing to the employment headline target of the Europe 2020 Strategy.