Was there the concept of paternity leave in Spain in 1913?
score:7
No, at least not officially. Paternity leave wasn't first legislated for in Spain until 1980, when fathers were given two days' leave (or four days if the child died). In 1989, this was extended to four days and in 2007 to 15 days. Note that, historically, maternity leave evolved in large part as a response to health concerns related to childbirth (i.e. fathers didn't give birth so there was no issue here).
Paternity leave in the West was introduced in the 1970s in Scandinavian countries, partly in response to the greater number of women entering the work force. Also, there was a groundbreaking case in New York in 1973 when:
the EEOC [Equal Employment Opportunity Commission] “found that the mothers-only rule ‘discriminates against male teachers as a class.’ As a result, the board says it will reword its bylaws to ensure equal rights for fathers.” That autumn, the relevant section of the Board of Ed bylaws was amended so that it no longer referred to an affected teacher as “her” or relied on the timing of the teacher’s pregnancy, thus expanding its relevancy to fathers and to adoptive parents. The determination is widely regarded as the groundbreaking first step toward paternity leave’s existence.
In Spain, men had very little opportunity for paternity leave until 2007:
The first paternity law reforms came in 2007 via the Spanish Law on Gender Equality which introduced a non-transferable, two-week paternity leave with a 100% wage compensation, followed by other expansions, adjustments and improvements over the years.
Note that even maternity leave was uncommon before the 20th century. Switzerland seems to have been the first country by some distance when
The Swiss Factory Act of 1877 provided an 8-week ‘rest period’ for mothers, six of which had to follow birth.
Germany also introduced a form of maternity leave before 1900 while, in Spain, maternity leave came about in 1900, when three weeks of leave was granted.
Note: the information on Spain comes from articles in Spanish, for which I used google translate.
Upvote:1
You won't find anything, as the concept of paternity leave is a very modern one. I haven't heard about it before the 1980's.
My dad got half a day off to be able to register my birth at the town hall. That was all the paternity leave you got.
More post
- 📝 When did flogging and other corporal punishments get abolished in Europe?
- 📝 Why does the parish register show more baptisms than burials?
- 📝 Can you identify the ship in this picture?
- 📝 Time zones in USA
- 📝 Is there a correlation between modern Middle East uprisings/wars and Ramadan?
- 📝 How close were the living standards of India compared to England during the medieval period?
- 📝 Why would this word have been an unsuitable name in Communist Poland? Is it because it's a racial slur?
- 📝 Battle of Vienna & Morean War : what was Russia's position?
- 📝 Is Thomas Wedgwood's picture actually the first photograph?
- 📝 WWII: Did the entire war depend on breaking the ENIGMA cipher?
- 📝 Why did Hadrian put Jupiter's statue in Beith Hamikdash?
- 📝 What was the Janissaries' Strength?
- 📝 Is Attila The Hun's Throne actually located in The Veneto?
- 📝 Were any other members of the Kennedy (Political) family affected by Addison's disease?
- 📝 Why did the Sassanid and the Eastern Roman Empire fail to make a lasting peace?
- 📝 What was clothing in ancient Palmyra like?
- 📝 Which floating-point representation did Konrad Zuse's Z1 use?
- 📝 Have there been ruthless rulers who held on to power despite being blinded?
- 📝 Did B-17 crews run into difficulty releasing their bombs and does data exist on this?
- 📝 What does Russia want in Chechnya?
- 📝 Schism of 1054 - what were the positions of Jerusalem, Alexandria and Antioch?
- 📝 Was The Prince by Machiavelli intended as satire?
- 📝 Why was the city of Philippi abandoned?
- 📝 Was there an assassination attempt against Xerxes in the battle of Thermopylae?
- 📝 Were the problems Fibonacci solved in his work "Flos" posed specifically for him?
- 📝 Why is there hostility between Russia and the Baltic states?
- 📝 How were snipers used on the western front during WW2?
- 📝 What good came from the Great Leap Forward?
- 📝 Why is such a large percentage of Jewish population worldwide in USA
- 📝 Was there any practical use for German spiked helmets (Pickelhaube)?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Was there the concept of paternity leave in Spain in 1913?
- 📝 Was there ever a situation where members of two warring militaries were on leave in the same neutral location?
- 📝 Is there any evidence to support the claim that the United States was "suckered into WW1" by Zionists, made by Benjamin Freedman in his 1961 speech?
- 📝 Was there ever a treaty between 2 entities with significantly different translations to the detriment of one party?
- 📝 What led some people to (correctly) believe that there was no land under the ice cap at the North Pole?
- 📝 Why was there a surge in the US incarceration rate during the 1990s?
- 📝 Is there evidence to suggest the "war on drugs" was a cover for class warfare?
- 📝 Was there a tax in the fifties for British citizens traveling abroad?
- 📝 Was there an assassination attempt against Xerxes in the battle of Thermopylae?
- 📝 Was there a King of England, or an heir to the throne, in 1831 who idolized Michael Faraday?
- 📝 Was there a European response to the trail of tears?
- 📝 Was there really a navy officer named Picard at the Battle of Trafalgar?
- 📝 Was there a priest on the Titanic who stayed on the ship giving confession to as many as he could?
- 📝 Was the concept of religious freedom in the early United States applied to native American faiths?
- 📝 Why was there lack of food during WW2 in the UK?
- 📝 Was there a Japanese equivalent of the Gestapo during WW2
- 📝 Was there a pre-determined arrangement for the division of Germany in case it surrendered before any Soviet forces entered its territory?
- 📝 Was there an increased interest in 'the spirit world' in the aftermath of the First World War?
- 📝 Was there any theological opposition to the lightning rod?
- 📝 Was there ever any doubt which side the USA would join?
- 📝 Was there a bronze age in the Americas?
- 📝 When was the concept of "weekly day off" first introduced in Indian Subcontinent?
- 📝 Was there a "secret" recording of the American founding fathers' deliberations?
- 📝 Where was the dateline before the concept of the International Dateline?
- 📝 Is there convincing evidence that the language of Bulgars (proto-Bulgarians) was not Turkic, but Indo-European?
- 📝 Why was the Spanish kingdom in America called New Spain if Spain didn't exist as a country back then?
- 📝 Was there a constitutional mechanism to overturn the election of Adolf Hitler?
- 📝 Was there any terrorism in the Soviet Union?
- 📝 Why was there little nonwhite migration to Europe in the 19th century?
- 📝 Was there a rule against non-Muslims wearing the colour green in the Ottoman empire?