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The Effect of Childcare Use on Gender Equality in European Labor Markets
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Abstract
Parenthood necessarily increases the scope of unpaid work in households and tends to depress women’s employment rates relative to men’s. This paper examines the relationship between the use of full-time childcare for children under 3 years of age and employment rates for men and women with one, two,... view more
Parenthood necessarily increases the scope of unpaid work in households and tends to depress women’s employment rates relative to men’s. This paper examines the relationship between the use of full-time childcare for children under 3 years of age and employment rates for men and women with one, two, or three or more children under 6 years of age in European households. Panel data from a sample of the (then) twenty-eight European Union member states for the 2005–15 period were analyzed. The results indicate that smaller differences between employment rates of men and women with one, two, or three or more children under 6 years of age are associated with greater use of full-time childcare arrangements for children under the age of 3.... view less
Keywords
gender relations; gender role; parenthood; child care; employment situation; EU; affirmative action
Classification
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Family Sociology, Sociology of Sexual Behavior
Free Keywords
EU-SILC
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 90-113
Journal
Feminist Economics, 27 (2021) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2021.1933560
ISSN
1466-4372
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0