Permissions by children and community caution to accumulate them in women: what if you choose to be a monoparental family?

Commentary on the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union of November 18, 2020, case C-463/19

Abstract

European Union law allows national laws and collective agreements to recognize leave in addition to legal maternity leave. However, the accumulation of these leaves can have effects contrary to the protection of the maternity that they seek and damage, instead, the position of women in the labor market. These gender imbalances in the policies for reconciling work and family life are more serious in the cases of single-parent families, most of them made up of women.