Parental Leave Abstracts

Parental Leave Abstracts


Survey of Parental Leave at Texas Tech University

Abstract

This project studied Texas Tech University (TTU) students’ perception of parental leave. A survey was conducted on 291 participants from TTU community. We found that TTU students were more likely to support the idea that paternal leave should be equal to maternity leave or be extended. We also found that Texan students were more likely to support government control of parental leave than to oppose it. Most TTU students said that they would take parental leave even if their bosses or peers did not take it. Furthermore, we found that female TTU students would prefer companies offering parental leave more than male students would. (Yu Hua)


Study on Parental Leave Policy

Abstract

This paper discusses the opinion of Texas Tech community on the current issue of Parental Leave policy, specifically in the United States of America. In this paper, a study was carried to analyze the opinion of TTU community based on a survey. Our class of ESL 5315 course had questions based on parental leave policy in the United States and decided to carry out a survey by asking few questions. These survey questions were asked based on interesting hypotheses which were based on what we think about Texas Tech community would answer. Interestingly, we found that the Texas Tech community is more in favor of government involvement, independently take their decisions, and is not in favor of equal maternal and paternal leave; males are more in favor of presidential nominees based on their stance on parental leave and Texas Tech community favors a company more which has existing parental leave policy. (Pradeep Vyawahare)


Views of Parental Leave from Texas Tech Community

Abstract

Parental leave in the U.S is worse compared to the rest of the world. Lots of debates regarding this issue have proceeded for a while. We conducted a survey to investigate how the Texas Tech University community thinks about Parental Leave. Our results showed that older people and females cared more about parental leave and wanted more rights. Also, although Texans did not like government involvement in business, still more than half of both Texans and non-Texans support parental leave. More people did not believe Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump would actually make a policy of paid parental leave even if they promised they would. (Rui Liu)


Research on Testing Tech’s Students’ Perceptions of Parental Leave

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The paper is aimed to test Texas Tech’s students’ perceptions of parental leave. Firstly, a thorough literature review including 15 news articles was made for us to obtain the basic perception of low parental leave coverage in the United States now. Secondly, based on the literature review, five hypotheses of different angles were made to compare with students’ potential reactions. Then a questionnaire was made by ourselves, allocated to students in Tech and combined together for analysis in the end. According to the data of our survey, basic judgements on five hypotheses towards Tech students’ perceptions was made, which were different to the author’s predictions. The paper also discusses possible reasons for the difference and proposes some revising advice for the questionnaire. (Jin Hao)

Keywords: perceptions; parental leave