France and the United Kingdom represent two contrasting institutional models for the integration of employment and motherhood, respectively the 'universalistic' regime type that offers subsidized child-care and maternity-leave benefits to women at all income levels, and the 'means-testing'...

This paper is an argument about gender relations. It takes the entwined themes of men's interests in parenthood, the sex division of labor and its evolution, policy for gender equity and policy to support the level of social reproduction. The emphasis on women's employment as a determinant of...