The Fatherhood Institute

• Could EU plans hold key to UK parenting leave reform post-Brexit? May 3, 2017
  Jeremy Davies writes: Parenting leave experts always knew that Shared Parental Leave (SPL) would disappoint. The international evidence is clear: if governments are serious about encouraging large numbers of fathers to take substantial periods of leave during the baby’s first year (as they should be if they are serious about tackling the gender pay gap […]
• FI joins call for new deal for dads in election manifestos April 26, 2017
  The Fatherhood Institute has joined a coalition of charities and trade unions, to call on the UK’s political parties to include policies aimed at promoting involved fatherhood in their election manifestos. 
• New resource helps shared parental leave scheme celebrate 2nd birthday April 4, 2017
  We are delighted to have contributed to a new shared parental leave resource developed by Alliance Manchester Business School, Lancaster University School of Management and work-life balance charity, Working Families, which was launched to coincide with the second anniversary of the scheme. 
• ‘Everything works against fathers’: UK dads feel work-life balance strain January 16, 2017
  The Women and Equalities Committee’s Fathers and the workplace is ongoing. You can read the first oral evidence to the enquiry, from 22 March, here. 
• Why we need men to walk the talk for gender equality at work November 10, 2016
  The Fatherhood Institute is supporting #Walkthetalk, a campaign that calls on men to take a stand and ‘walk the talk’ for gender equality in the workplace.