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Iceland enjoys a reputation as one of the most gender equal countries in the world. It has also received much attention for an innovative approach to parental leave where fathers have three months of non-transferable leave, thereby encouraging active involvement of fathers in the caretaking of their children. This article focuses on the discrepancy between on the one hand the goals of the state of drawing men, particularly fathers, into traditional female dominated areas such as caregiving of infants and young children and on the other hand a discourse that equates motherhood with parenthood and promotes the ideology of intensive mothering.

In 2014, a group of male Syrian refugees organized a sit-in protest in Greece. They demanded and gained permission to travel further into Europe. In a world where mobility has become a marker of men's success, Europe's border regime tests "other" men's aspiration for mobility through images of good morality and provider's capability. Within this system, male asylum seekers tend to be rejected as too pitiful, as not real men, or as dangerous distorted men. However, in Greece, the discourse of human dignity has reconstructed people's perceptions of other men's vulnerability. Thus, we argue that the young Syrians could embody an emergent refugee masculinity by visibly performing responsibility, democracy, and strength and by navigating their desires through moral subjectivity. Moreover, they rejected personal political sensibilities in order to maintain solidarity within the group. Thus, the performance by the Syrian refugee men has paved the way for emergent refugee masculinities in Greece, which have since then gained worldwide attention.

Í maí 2000 samþykkti Alþingi einróma lög nr. 95/2000 um fæðingar- og foreldraorlof. Lögin fólu í sér afar róttækar breytingar á aðstæðum nýbakaðra foreldra. Samkvæmt markmiðum laganna áttu þau að stuðla að því að börn nytu samvista við foreldra sína og auðvelda konum og körlum að samþætta atvinnuog fjölskyldulíf. Þessi lög voru í gildi þar til heildarendurskoðun leiddi til laga nr. 144/2020. Í þessari grein er spurt að hvaða leyti löggjöfin hafi náð hinu tvíþætta markmiði. Gögn, sem aflað með könnunum meðal foreldra á fjórum tímapunktum yfir tæplega 20 ára tímabil, voru nýtt til að greina breytingar á þátttöku mæðra og feðra í umönnun fyrsta barns og breytingar á vinnumarkaðsþátttöku mæðra og feðra ári fyrir fæðingu barnsins og þar til það nær þriggja ára aldri. Niðurstöður sýna að frá gildistöku laganna hafa feður aukið þátttöku sína í umönnun barna sinna og dregið hefur saman með foreldrum hvað varðar atvinnuþátttöku og vinnutíma.

In 2000 the Icelandic parliament adopted unanimously a new and radical law on parental leave. The leave was extended from six months to nine; divided between the parents so that fathers were allotted three months, mothers three and the remaining three divided between the two. One reason given for this division was to try to ensure that children received care from both parents. From the results of a questionnaire answered by parents who had their first child in 1997, 2003 or 2009 it was estimated whether the intention of the law was put into practice. The results indicate that the division of care between parents, from birth until three years, has changed in the intended direction and that this is mainly due to the law. The results also showed that this is least common among parents that do not live together. However, even amongst these parents the division of care is more equal among those who had their first child in 2009 than those who had their first in 1997. Finally, the results show that there is a direct correlation between the length of leave taken by the father and his involvement in care afterwards. Overall, these results indicate that the law has had the intended effect of providing children with care from both parents.

The five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, are well-known for their extensive welfare system and gender equality which provides both parents with opportunities to earn and care for their children. In this topical book, expert scholars from the Nordic countries, as well as UK and the US, demonstrate how modern fatherhood is supported in the Nordic setting through family and social policies, and how these contribute to shaping and influencing the images, roles and practices of fathers in a diversity of family settings and variations of fatherhoods. This comprehensive volume will have wide international appeal for those who look to Nordic countries and their success in creating gender equal societies