This article from the Huffington Post UK highlights findings and recommendations from the State of the World’s Fathers 215 report, the first of its kind. The article discusses findings from the report that indicate that fathers’ increased involvement in their children’s lives is beneficial both to the child’s development as well as the father’s own wellbeing. Despite this fact, says the article, there is still no country in which men spend as much time on unpaid caregiving work as women do, according to the report. This is attributed, in part, to a lack of paid paternity leave and other employment policies for working fathers, a large factor contributing to gender inequality. The article lists several of the many benefits of men’s participation in caregiving, as noted in the report, and concludes with some recommendations from the report on creating better policies to increase men’s involvement in their children’s lives.
