The Fatherhood Institute

• 100 years to gender parity: the case for parenting leave reform December 18, 2019
  At the current rate of progress it will take 99.5 years to close the global gender pay gap, according to a new report from The World Economic Forum – which places the UK 21st (down six places since last year) in the world gender equality league table. 
• New guide leads the way on recruitment of men into early years November 19, 2019
  Our groundbreaking male recruitment guide for the UK early years education sector – available for free to all members of the MITEY (Men In The Early Years) network – is out today (International Men’s Day, 19 November). 
• Our campaign for father-inclusive support for working families September 18, 2019
  Over the next six weeks we will submit our responses to the UK Government’s Good Work Plan, which includes three separate consultations: one about neonatal leave and pay, one about transparency of employer work-life balance policies (these first two must be submitted by 11 October), and one about parenting leave and pay (to be submitted […]
• Why we are campaigning for more men in early years education May 9, 2019
  Right now, just 3% of Britain’s early years staff are men. That figure that has barely changed for the last 20 years, despite huge increases in men’s involvement as hands-on fathers, and better progress towards gender equality in other traditionally female work sectors, like primary school teaching (15% male) and nursing (11%). 
• New project will make UK cohort studies more father-inclusive March 4, 2019
  Last year, we published our Nuffield Foundation-funded report Where’s the Daddy? (part of the Contemporary Fathers in the UK series) which explored the complex question of how researchers collect data about British fathers.