An analysis of national media coverage of a parental leave reform investigating sentiment, semantics and contributors.

ABSTRACT: While paid leave for fathers after the birth of a child has become increasingly available, mothers still take most of the parental leave. A recent European Union (EU) reform addresses the unequal sharing of leave between parents via earmarking of paid, non-shareable leave to each parent. Given that the reform's success will depend on uptake by families, we analysed Danish national media coverage to understand how journalists were writing about the reform. We assessed the sentiment and semantics of leave reform coverage compared to general news from the same period, also considering the inferred journalist gender and newspaper political orientation. Parental leave reform articles were slightly more emotional than general news, independent of who authored the article, or the newspaper where

SUBMITTER: Vermillet AQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10792055 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature