How well do wealthy countries support working parents? Comparing Sweden, France, Germany, Japan, and the U.S. through the prism of justice

Abstract

ABSTRACTThis article identifies four strands of justice and uses them to evaluate the work–family support policies of five postindustrial democracies, Sweden, France, Germany, Japan, and the U.S. It provides a full-bodied set of concepts for thinking critically and comparatively about how countries go about supporting working families, and makes a case for the value of thinking about how justice claims are used to frame such policies.