Contents: Part I: Problems, perspectives and contexts
1. Introduction: Placing nordic earner-carer politics in time
2. The politics of policy formation: Modes of change, ideas and parties
3. The contexts: Nordic welfare states
Part II: Earner-carer policy paths
4. Shifting leave path: From mother to parent right
5. Politicising fatherhood: Struggles over quota politics
6. Going public: Towards universal childcare and beyond
7. Cash for childcare: Choice controversies
Part III: Temporality and policy impact
8. Earner-carer policy outcomes: The longer term
Part IV: Conclusions
9. The era of nordic earner-carer politics.