"There is a large body of cross-national research on attitudes towards maternal employment. However, little cross-national studies exist mapping attitudes towards father's involvement and how they evolve over time. The aim of this paper is to enhance our understanding of the factors that relate to the attitudes towards father's involvement by providing a rich comparison over time, country and inter-country factors by using the European Value Survey that included the following statement in 1999 and 2008-2009: In general, fathers are as well suited to look after their children as mothers. Special focus will be put on the influence of the welfare regime, age and gender. A descriptive analysis over time with age is given, to identify an intra-cohort change or cohort replacement, to explain the change of attitudes. Overall, most countries do not experience a significant absolute shift, only Great Britain, France and Spain become more supportive. Furthermore, attitudes towards fathers’ involvement seem to fit the standard welfare typology. However, Spain and Poland were much more progressive than expected. The cohort replacement effect seems to be prevalent in Spain and France. Education level and having children only seem to be of influence in the attitude formation by women." (author's abstract) ; "Zu den Einstellungen zur Müttererwerbstätigkeit liegt umfangreiche länderübergreifende Literatur vor. Es gibt jedoch nur wenige länderübergreifende Studien, die die Einstellungen zur väterlichen Beteiligung an der Pflege und Erziehung der Kinder abbilden und darlegen, wie sich diese im Zeitverlauf entwickelt haben. Dieser Artikel verfolgt das Ziel, unser Verständnis der Faktoren, die mit den Einstellungen zur väterlichen Beteiligung zusammenhängen, mithilfe eines umfassenden Vergleiches von länderspezifischen und länderübergreifenden Faktoren über die Zeit zu erfassen, indem der European Values Survey genutzt wird, in welchem sich folgendes Statement in den Befragungen der Jahre 1999, 2008 und 2009 findet: 'In general, ...