A central part of my work has focused on the parental leave program for fathers in Israel.
In my Ph.D. Dissertation, I have analyzed the formation process of the parental leave for fathers program in Israel, focusing on the interaction of ideational and non-ideational factors in the policymaking process to understand the results of this process.
in further work, I have both looked into additional aspects of work-life balance policy regarding fathers in Israel – mainly work hour regulation – and other aspects of the Israeli parental leave.
Publications
Ph.D. Dissertation
Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N. (2014). Failure Has No Fathers: The Formation of the Israeli Parental Leave for Fathers, Between Ideational and Material Factors. Jerusalem: Hebrew Univesity.
Other Publications
Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N., and Berkovitch, A. (Forthcoming). A Leave from Fatherhood: Perceptions of Fatherhood and Their Expressions in Court Rulings on Parental Leave for Fathers. Bar Ilan Law Review. [Hebrew]
Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N. (2019). Fathers as Frauds – the Construction of Masculinity as Welfare Fraud in Parental Leave in Israel. Journal of Men and Masculinities. 22(2). Pp. 127-150. DOI 10.1177/1097184X17696175
Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N. (2019) Israel: Desired changes refusing to materialize. In: Moss, P., Duvander, A. and Koslowski, A. (Eds): Parental Leave and Beyond: Recent Developments, Current Issues, Future Directions. Bristol: Policy Press
Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N. (2018). In the name of the mother: The status of fathers in Israeli social policy, as seen through parental leave and work hour regulation. Hevra Ve’Revaha [Hebrew]
Perez-Vaisvidovsky, N. (2013) “Fathers at a crossroads: The combined effect of organizational and cultural factors on the making of gender-related policy“. Social Politics 20(3): 407-429.
Perez, N. (2010). “The Abandoning of Fathers as Surveillance of Families: Fathers in the Israeli Legislative Discourse“. In Katz, H and Tzfadia, E (eds.), Abandoning State – Surveillancing State” : Social Policy in Israel, 1985-2008. Tel-Aviv: Resling [Hebrew]