Labour market patterns among women and men following the uptake of their first parental leave benefit in Sweden
What happens to a parent’s career after the first return-to-work day?
Parenting Journal · Work & family · Volume 1 · Issue 5
Independence
Agency, skills, boundaries and meaningful control over how work and care fit together.
20 articles · Page 1 of 1
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Physician Work Patterns in Pregnancy, Parental Leave, and Return to the Workforce
Can someone step away for childbirth without first overloading their workday?
Workplace Resocialization After Parental Leave as a Site of Work/Life Paradox in Three Boundary-Setting Contexts
Can a returning parent decide how work and family identity fit together?
Returning to Work After Maternity Leave: A Qualitative Study of Nurses' Experiences and Factors Influencing Their Retention
What would make a returning parent want to stay rather than merely manage the first shift?
Clinical Work Experiences of Nurses Returning to Work Postpartum: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Meta‐Synthesis
How do we rebuild confidence and capability after leave without assuming the parent has lost them?
What are the factors that affect female healthcare workers on their return to work after maternity leave?
Are we designing a return plan from evidence about this job—or borrowing from another profession?
Maternal Postpartum Work Resumption Stress: Questionnaire Development and Validation
Are we asking about the stress of returning, or just whether someone has returned?
“A Mother Makes a Better Nurse”: A Phenomenological Study of Neonatal Nurses' Readiness Recalibration Following Postpartum Return to Work
Can a return plan recognize new strengths as well as the support someone needs?
Unleashing the potential of metaphors: a categorization system for exploring return to work after maternity
If returning to work were a picture or metaphor, what would this parent choose?
Developing and Validating the Scale of Organizational Support Needs for Nurses Returning to Work After Childbirth
Which support does this returning parent need: a manager, a work condition, or a colleague?
Returning to work after maternity leave: a systematic literature review
What belongs in a return conversation besides the start date?
Breaking the maternity mold: navigating the return to work and challenging rigid maternal beliefs through an online psychological intervention
Can a parent return without being trapped by an impossible idea of the perfect mother?
An exploratory analysis of changes in work values among nurses before and after pregnancy
Can a returning employee redefine success without losing career opportunity?
Facilitating transition from maternity leave to work for working mothers: A self-efficacy intervention study
What preparation could help a parent feel capable of returning on their own terms?
Challenges, experiences, and potential supports for East and Southeast Asian mothers in the workforce: a systematic review
Does our return plan respond to this parent’s priorities rather than a regional stereotype?
Family Leave and Return-to-Work Experiences of Physician Mothers
What would a returning parent say was missing from the support we offered?
Returning to Work after Childbirth in Europe: Well-Being, Work-Life Balance, and the Interplay of Supervisor Support
Is a return arrangement usable when the supervisor does not support it?
“Crying on the Bus”: First Time Fathers’ Experiences of Distress on Their Return to Work
Do we notice the new father who is struggling when he returns?
Experiences of Female Nurses’ Parental Leave in Taiwan: A Qualitative Study
Can we make it easier for a parent to leave, stay connected by choice, and return?
Predictors of the return to work for pregnant employees on preventive leave: Patients from an occupational medicine consultation in Switzerland
Can a safe job adjustment preserve a pregnant employee’s ability to keep working?
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