Johanna Lammi-Taskula
Biographic Data
| ID | 327473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johanna Lammi-Taskula |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Lammi-Taskula |
| SIGNATURE | LAMMI-TASKULA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1571-2505 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Selecting between public and private early childhood education and care in the Nordic context: The roles of socioeconomic status, municipal subsidies and parents’ attitudes
As in the other Nordic welfare states, public ECEC system is seen as the cornerstone of the universal early childhood education and care (ECEC) institution in Finland. Many Finnish municipalities, however, support private ECEC service provision and parents’ possibility to choose ECEC services for their child, both of which indicate privatisation and marketisation of ECEC. This study examines parents’ (N = 781) ECEC decisions between public and pr…
Continuities, changes, and critical moments: A longitudinal analysis of sharing parental responsibilities in Finland
Associations between Sociodemographic Characteristics and Primary Care Arrangements for One-Year-Old Children in Finland: Municipal Supplement to Home Care Allowance as a Potential Moderator
Introduction: Sociodemographic characteristics are robust predictors of children’s care arrangements. However, children’s unequal enrolment in early childhood education and care cannot be solely attributed to differences in sociodemographic characteristics, which are often considered separate from contextual factors. Therefore, we explored associations between sociodemographic characteristics and primary care arrangements for one-year-olds while …
Employed Mothers' Justifications for Using Child Home Care Allowance in Finland
This paper examines the justifications for using the Child Home Care Allowance given by Finnish mothers with a one-year-old child, and the factors associated with these justifications. The study is based on a survey with parents, focussing on mothers with existing employment contract and spouse ( n = 530). The main justification for home care of a one-year-old child was that the child is too young for out-of-home day care. Experiencing home care …
Growing inequality and diverging paths in early childhood education and care: Educational disparities in Europe
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is among the most important services for children and their parents as it promotes children’s development and enables mothers’ employment. Previous research has shown that there is an educational gradient as children of mothers with a low education level participate less in ECEC services, but less is known about the development of this inequality. This study, using EU-SILC survey data, focuses on the deve…
Parental Leave Reforms in Finland 1977–2019 from a Diversity Perspective
In Finland, all parents, regardless of gender, are eligible for parental leave and there are no restrictive eligibility criteria. In practice, however, the statutory leave options are not equally available to all parents. Since the 1970s, steps have been taken in redesigning the leave scheme to make it more inclusive. Several reforms have been made to promote equality, mainly between women and men, but also between diverse families, such as adopt…
Gender equality: Parental Leave design and evaluating its effects on fathers’ participation
This chapter is about the design of Parental Leave policy and its relationship to leave-taking by fathers and gender equality more generally. The Nordic countries have historically emphasised gender equality in policymaking and have been in the forefront for introducing policies that encourage mothers and fathers to share responsibility for the care of children. Parental Leave is considered to be one such policy as it secures fathers’ rights to p…
Economic strain and parental coping – evidence from Finland
The international financial crisis 2008–2009 led to a period of economic recession in Europe, and in Finland this lasted until around 2016–2017. The recession had a number of negative outcomes, such as higher unemployment, higher poverty rates, and an overall higher economic strain for households with children. The aim of this article is to analyse the association between economic strain and parental coping in a Finnish context, but also to asses…
Fathers' Leave Take-Up in Finland: Motivations and Barriers in a Complex Nordic Leave Scheme
Despite being the first country in the world to introduce paternity leave in 1978, Finland's current national leave scheme is complex with regard to incentivizing fathers' take-up. Taking the unique Finnish leave scheme as a case example, this article examines fathers' motivations and barriers to leave. Although research on fathers' take-up of leave in divergent leave policy contexts has increased dramatically, fathers' motivations and barriers t…
Trends in parental leave in the Nordic countries: Has the Forward March of Gender Equality Halted
The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the development of parental leave in the Nordic countries in the last decade or so and explain the different roads taken by individual countries in this regard. Focusing on the recent development, mainly on father’s quota, we discuss whether we are witnessing a paradigm shift in some of these countries, away from an emphasis on gender equality to a more traditional family approach, with the mot…
Fatherhood in the Nordic Welfare States: Comparing care policies and practice
The five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, are well-known for their extensive welfare system and gender equality which provides both parents with opportunities to earn and care for their children. In this topical book, expert scholars from the Nordic countries, as well as UK and the US, demonstrate how modern fatherhood is supported in the Nordic setting through family and social policies, and how these contribute to…
Policy goals and obstacles for fathers’ parental leave in Finland
This chapter analyses why Finnish fathers do not take more parental leave even if promoting gender equality has been a longstanding goal of family policy. It shows that the obstacles are to be found not only in factors at the individual level but also in the structuring of leave schemes and in the special Finnish policy making process where the schemes are developed as compromises in tripartite negotiations between the central employer and employ…
Parental leave, childcare and gender equality in the Nordic countries
De nordiske lande anses ofte for at være foregangslande inden for ligestillingsområdet. Det er sandt at kvinder generelt har en stærkere position i de nordiske samfund end i resten af verden. Der er en utvetydig vilje i de fleste – eller måske i alle – områder af samfundet med henblik på at fremme og styrke ligestillingen mellem kvinder og mænd. I de senere år er der sket nogle betydelige forandringer i familierne hvor mændene nu i højere grad ta…
Nordic men on parental leave: Can the welfare state change gender relations?
Promoting fatherhood at the policy and institutional level can produce more symmetrical definitions of women and men as parents than will exist without such promotion. But does the politicising of fatherhood really ‘make men into fathers’ (Hobson, 2002)? Men are facing a challenge to increasingly share the responsibilities of family life at the same time as women have become an important part of the labour market. From the early 1990s, fatherhood…
Nordic men on parental leave: Can the welfare state change gender relations?
This chapter addresses the question: what is the likelihood of changing gender relations with the help of welfare policies such as parental leave? The chapter is concerned with the politicising of fatherhood, and compares the current entitlements of fathers for taking parental leave in five Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland and Denmark). It then uses a review of Nordic studies to examine the socioeconomic and cultural conditions …
Forskning om män och maskuliniteter i Finland
During the last two decades, several books and artides on men and masculinities have been published in Finland - mainly in Finnish. The purpose of this article is to make this research known for readers who do not read Finnish. The first wave of books on men in the 1980's were not related to gender equality, instead these books were mostly qualitative studies on men's relation to alcohol. The first bibliography on studies on men was published by …
Trends in parental leave in the Nordic countries: Has the Forward March of Gender Equality Halted
The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the development of parental leave in the Nordic countries in the last decade or so and explain the different roads taken by individual countries in this regard. Focusing on the recent development, mainly on father’s quota, we discuss whether we are witnessing a paradigm shift in some of these countries, away from an emphasis on gender equality to a more traditional family approach, with the mot…
Fathers' Leave Take-Up in Finland: Motivations and Barriers in a Complex Nordic Leave Scheme
Despite being the first country in the world to introduce paternity leave in 1978, Finland's current national leave scheme is complex with regard to incentivizing fathers' take-up. Taking the unique Finnish leave scheme as a case example, this article examines fathers' motivations and barriers to leave. Although research on fathers' take-up of leave in divergent leave policy contexts has increased dramatically, fathers' motivations and barriers t…
Parental Leave Reforms in Finland 1977–2019 from a Diversity Perspective
In Finland, all parents, regardless of gender, are eligible for parental leave and there are no restrictive eligibility criteria. In practice, however, the statutory leave options are not equally available to all parents. Since the 1970s, steps have been taken in redesigning the leave scheme to make it more inclusive. Several reforms have been made to promote equality, mainly between women and men, but also between diverse families, such as adopt…
Associations between Sociodemographic Characteristics and Primary Care Arrangements for One-Year-Old Children in Finland: Municipal Supplement to Home Care Allowance as a Potential Moderator
Introduction: Sociodemographic characteristics are robust predictors of children’s care arrangements. However, children’s unequal enrolment in early childhood education and care cannot be solely attributed to differences in sociodemographic characteristics, which are often considered separate from contextual factors. Therefore, we explored associations between sociodemographic characteristics and primary care arrangements for one-year-olds while …
Economic strain and parental coping – evidence from Finland
The international financial crisis 2008–2009 led to a period of economic recession in Europe, and in Finland this lasted until around 2016–2017. The recession had a number of negative outcomes, such as higher unemployment, higher poverty rates, and an overall higher economic strain for households with children. The aim of this article is to analyse the association between economic strain and parental coping in a Finnish context, but also to asses…
Forskning om män och maskuliniteter i Finland
During the last two decades, several books and artides on men and masculinities have been published in Finland - mainly in Finnish. The purpose of this article is to make this research known for readers who do not read Finnish. The first wave of books on men in the 1980's were not related to gender equality, instead these books were mostly qualitative studies on men's relation to alcohol. The first bibliography on studies on men was published by …
Nordic men on parental leave: Can the welfare state change gender relations?
Promoting fatherhood at the policy and institutional level can produce more symmetrical definitions of women and men as parents than will exist without such promotion. But does the politicising of fatherhood really ‘make men into fathers’ (Hobson, 2002)? Men are facing a challenge to increasingly share the responsibilities of family life at the same time as women have become an important part of the labour market. From the early 1990s, fatherhood…
Nordic men on parental leave: Can the welfare state change gender relations?
This chapter addresses the question: what is the likelihood of changing gender relations with the help of welfare policies such as parental leave? The chapter is concerned with the politicising of fatherhood, and compares the current entitlements of fathers for taking parental leave in five Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland and Denmark). It then uses a review of Nordic studies to examine the socioeconomic and cultural conditions …
Parental leave, childcare and gender equality in the Nordic countries
De nordiske lande anses ofte for at være foregangslande inden for ligestillingsområdet. Det er sandt at kvinder generelt har en stærkere position i de nordiske samfund end i resten af verden. Der er en utvetydig vilje i de fleste – eller måske i alle – områder af samfundet med henblik på at fremme og styrke ligestillingen mellem kvinder og mænd. I de senere år er der sket nogle betydelige forandringer i familierne hvor mændene nu i højere grad ta…
Fatherhood in the Nordic Welfare States: Comparing care policies and practice
The five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, are well-known for their extensive welfare system and gender equality which provides both parents with opportunities to earn and care for their children. In this topical book, expert scholars from the Nordic countries, as well as UK and the US, demonstrate how modern fatherhood is supported in the Nordic setting through family and social policies, and how these contribute to…
Policy goals and obstacles for fathers’ parental leave in Finland
This chapter analyses why Finnish fathers do not take more parental leave even if promoting gender equality has been a longstanding goal of family policy. It shows that the obstacles are to be found not only in factors at the individual level but also in the structuring of leave schemes and in the special Finnish policy making process where the schemes are developed as compromises in tripartite negotiations between the central employer and employ…
Trends in parental leave in the Nordic countries: Has the Forward March of Gender Equality Halted
The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the development of parental leave in the Nordic countries in the last decade or so and explain the different roads taken by individual countries in this regard. Focusing on the recent development, mainly on father’s quota, we discuss whether we are witnessing a paradigm shift in some of these countries, away from an emphasis on gender equality to a more traditional family approach, with the mot…
Gender equality: Parental Leave design and evaluating its effects on fathers’ participation
This chapter is about the design of Parental Leave policy and its relationship to leave-taking by fathers and gender equality more generally. The Nordic countries have historically emphasised gender equality in policymaking and have been in the forefront for introducing policies that encourage mothers and fathers to share responsibility for the care of children. Parental Leave is considered to be one such policy as it secures fathers’ rights to p…
Economic strain and parental coping – evidence from Finland
The international financial crisis 2008–2009 led to a period of economic recession in Europe, and in Finland this lasted until around 2016–2017. The recession had a number of negative outcomes, such as higher unemployment, higher poverty rates, and an overall higher economic strain for households with children. The aim of this article is to analyse the association between economic strain and parental coping in a Finnish context, but also to asses…
Fathers' Leave Take-Up in Finland: Motivations and Barriers in a Complex Nordic Leave Scheme
Despite being the first country in the world to introduce paternity leave in 1978, Finland's current national leave scheme is complex with regard to incentivizing fathers' take-up. Taking the unique Finnish leave scheme as a case example, this article examines fathers' motivations and barriers to leave. Although research on fathers' take-up of leave in divergent leave policy contexts has increased dramatically, fathers' motivations and barriers t…
Parental Leave Reforms in Finland 1977–2019 from a Diversity Perspective
In Finland, all parents, regardless of gender, are eligible for parental leave and there are no restrictive eligibility criteria. In practice, however, the statutory leave options are not equally available to all parents. Since the 1970s, steps have been taken in redesigning the leave scheme to make it more inclusive. Several reforms have been made to promote equality, mainly between women and men, but also between diverse families, such as adopt…
Growing inequality and diverging paths in early childhood education and care: Educational disparities in Europe
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is among the most important services for children and their parents as it promotes children’s development and enables mothers’ employment. Previous research has shown that there is an educational gradient as children of mothers with a low education level participate less in ECEC services, but less is known about the development of this inequality. This study, using EU-SILC survey data, focuses on the deve…
Selecting between public and private early childhood education and care in the Nordic context: The roles of socioeconomic status, municipal subsidies and parents’ attitudes
As in the other Nordic welfare states, public ECEC system is seen as the cornerstone of the universal early childhood education and care (ECEC) institution in Finland. Many Finnish municipalities, however, support private ECEC service provision and parents’ possibility to choose ECEC services for their child, both of which indicate privatisation and marketisation of ECEC. This study examines parents’ (N = 781) ECEC decisions between public and pr…
Continuities, changes, and critical moments: A longitudinal analysis of sharing parental responsibilities in Finland
Associations between Sociodemographic Characteristics and Primary Care Arrangements for One-Year-Old Children in Finland: Municipal Supplement to Home Care Allowance as a Potential Moderator
Introduction: Sociodemographic characteristics are robust predictors of children’s care arrangements. However, children’s unequal enrolment in early childhood education and care cannot be solely attributed to differences in sociodemographic characteristics, which are often considered separate from contextual factors. Therefore, we explored associations between sociodemographic characteristics and primary care arrangements for one-year-olds while …
Employed Mothers' Justifications for Using Child Home Care Allowance in Finland
This paper examines the justifications for using the Child Home Care Allowance given by Finnish mothers with a one-year-old child, and the factors associated with these justifications. The study is based on a survey with parents, focussing on mothers with existing employment contract and spouse ( n = 530). The main justification for home care of a one-year-old child was that the child is too young for out-of-home day care. Experiencing home care …
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Economics (10 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (10 works) · Demographic economics (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Parental leave (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (6 works)