Recent years have seen the rapid passage and modification of family leave policies in Latin America, a surprising trend, given the region’s historically conservative gender norms. This article argues that the rise of new paternity leave policies—as well as the modifications to longer-standing maternity leave policies—reflects contending visions of gender and the family, mediated by the institutions and actors that populate the region’s political landscape. Using an original dataset of family policy measures, this article finds that the factors facilitating the adoption of new, vanguard policies, such as paternity leave, function in ways different from those that shape the expansion of longer-standing policies, including maternity leave.

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解释拉丁美洲家庭休假政策的新模式：竞争愿景和促进机构

鉴于该地区历来保守的性别规范，近年来，拉丁美洲的探亲假政策迅速通过和修改，这是一个令人惊讶的趋势。本文认为，新的陪产假政策的兴起——以及对长期产假政策的修改——反映了在该地区政治格局中的机构和行为者的调解下，对性别和家庭的竞争愿景。本文使用家庭政策措施的原始数据集，发现促进采用新的先锋政策（如陪产假）的因素与影响包括产假在内的长期政策扩展的因素不同。