Examples of childcare in the following topics:
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- Providing benefits such as childcare, maternity/paternity leave, flexible working, and emergency leave is critical for helping employees keep a healthy work/life balance.
- Most commonly, businesses will create agreements with childcare providers in the local area, covering or sharing the costs of childcare while the parents are at work.
- Through providing childcare benefits, employers can potentially realize the following benefits:
- New parents need more than childcare to fully balance work and life demands.
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- In order to help the nonworking poor gain entry into the labor market, liberal scholars advocate that the government should provide more housing assistance, childcare, and other kinds of aid to poor families.
- Working poor parents with young children, especially single parents, face significantly more childcare-related obstacles than other people.
- Oftentimes, childcare costs can exceed a low-wage earners' income, making work, especially in a job with no potential for advancement, an economically illogical activity.
- However, some single parents are able to rely on their social networks to provide free or below-market-cost childcare.
- There are also some free childcare options provided by the government, such as the Head Start Program.
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- Middle class women in 1950's America worked as homemakers, and as such, were responsible for childcare, meals and household maintenance.
- This domestic consumption work creates goods and services within a household, such as meals, childcare, household repairs or the manufacture of clothes and gifts.
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- Social expectations that women manage childcare contribute to the gender pay gap and other limitations in professional life for women.
- On average, women take more time off and work fewer hours, often due to the unequal distribution of childcare and domestic labor.
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- In contrast, liberal scholars argue that the government should provide more housing assistance, childcare, and other kinds of aid to poor families, in order to help them overcome the obstacles they face.
- Some of these obstacles may include finding affordable housing, arranging transportation to and from work, buying basic necessities, arranging childcare, having unpredictable work schedules, juggling two or more jobs, and coping with low-status work.
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- The vast majority of childcare is still performed by the parents, in house nanny, or through informal arrangements with relatives, neighbors, or friends.
- Another factor favoring large corporate day cares is the existence of childcare facilities in the workplace.
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- Particular barriers to equal participation in the workplace included a lack of access to educational opportunities; prohibitions or restrictions on members of a particular gender entering a field or studying a field; discrimination within fields, including wage, management, and prestige hierarchies; and the expectation that mothers, rather than fathers, should be the primary childcare providers.
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- Hourly wages are higher in job types dominated by boys while girls are more frequently assigned housework and childcare duties.
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- A single parent will often face higher costs (in the form of paid childcare), lower earnings (loss of the second parent's income or loss of time spent at work), or both.
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- Women almost exclusively appear in ads that promote cooking, cleaning, or childcare-related products.