Daiva Skučienė

Professor at Social Policy Department at Vilnius University

Daiva is interested in family policy, gender, work-life balance, single mothers and policy interventions to solve their problems. She is a member of Eurofamnet. Her publications include ”The Lithuanian welfare system over the last 20 years of democratic transition: achievements, challenges, and future prospects” co-authored with J.Aidukaite, J.Moskvina, (Routledge Handbook of European Welfare Systems, ed. by K.Schubert, S.Blum, J.Kuhlman (2019) and “Social benefits against poverty of single parent for social investment”. Humanities and Social Sciences: Latvia, vol.27. (2019).

With colleagues, Daiva has published this article:

Skučienė, D., Crowley-Henry, M., & Grigužauskaitė, S. (2024). The rhetoric and reality of social support policies: working mothers’ lived experiences of state and employer support for work-family balance in Lithuania. Journal of Baltic Studies56(3), 531–550. https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2024.2398106