Abstract
This chapter examines the processes and impact of leave policymaking at global and supra-national levels. Taking a historical perspective, it shows how the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the United Nations (UN), and the European Union (EU) have approached the issue since its genesis in the 19th and 20th centuries. A range of discourses and practices have been visible over time, whether it be maternity protection, women's economic empowerment, gender equality, child wellbeing, and more recently social protection for those working in the informal labour market. Tensions between preserving sex-based protectionist rights for women workers, with developing gender equality measures have been visible since the ILO's Maternity Protection Convention in 1919 and continue 100 years later.
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