Abstract
The Nordic countries, which have the least gender inequality, have introduced parental leave for fathers and mothers since the 1970s. China started to introduce parental leave for both parents in 2021. This essay will explain the two regions parental leave policies and how their parental leave systems help with gender inequality problems and reduce womens disadvantages in the corporations. Then, the essay will analyse whether China can import the Nordic policy system to reduce the inequality gap and the disadvantages of women in corporations. This essay finds that China could import the longer duration of parental leave policies from the Nordic world so that more time is available for the parents to take care of their children. Also, China could import the reserved fathers leave system to increase the rate of fathers participation in child-caring. Nevertheless, there might be barriers from the company level that the companies might not expect the male workers to spend more time at home-caring. Another barrier might be from Confucian culture that there are deep-rooted beliefs of women being the primary career home, which could stop or slow down the development of family policies shifting into a less male-breadwinner model.
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