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Childcare and Mothers' Employment: Approaching the Millennium [PDF]
, 2006 Childcare provision in the UK has evolved alongside the expansion of mothers’ employment, transforming the experiences of successive generations. This paper reviews some mixed evidence on outcomes of maternal employment and offers a detailed examination ...
Hansen, Kirstine +2 more
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Understanding parental preference for childcare: a cross-sectional study in Chongqing, China
Frontiers in SociologyThis study analyzed the factors influencing childcare preference and the relationship between childcare preference and childcare service demand scale, using data collected from a questionnaire survey of 3,921 parents of infants and toddlers in Chongqing,
Boya Liu, Lunxin Liu, Hong Xu
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT SMEs receive increasing institutional support to embed sustainability, yet they vary widely in their ability to translate such support into practice. This study addresses this gap by examining the internal cognitive and strategic mechanism (sustainability orientation) through which managers interpret institutional support and the contextual ...
Michael Zisuh Ngoasong +3 more
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Adieu Rabenmutter - The Effect of Culture on Fertility, Female Labour Supply, the Gender Wage Gap and Childcare [PDF]
This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively correlated with ...
Rainald Borck
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Mapping the US Bridgebuilding Field: Situating Organizations in the Ecosystem of Social Change
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the ecosystem of bridge‐building initiatives in the United States. Drawing on an original database of 223 organizations, interviews with 7 staff across 6 organizations, and a literature review related to bridge‐building, polarization, and collective action, we first describe the range of existing initiatives and their ...
Gabrielle Mathews, Karen Ross
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Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2020 OBJECTIVE: Many employees have high physical exertion at work and suffer from musculoskeletal pain (MSP) leading to sickness absence with large costs. Participatory ergonomics is a potentially effective intervention for reducing physical exertion, MSP ...
Charlotte Diana Nørregaard Rasmussen +3 more
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Harmonising extended measures of parental childcare in the time-diary surveys of four countries – Proximity versus responsibility [PDF]
Measures of childcare drawn from time-diary data are commonly based on the specific childcare activities a parent engages in throughout the day. This emphasis on activities has been criticised as it ignores the large quantity of time parents spend ...
Killian Mullan, Lyn Craig
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Employer-Sponsored Childcare Benefits [PDF]
, 1998 [Excerpt] What contributions do employers make to caring for children while their parents work? In the United States, childcare benefits provided by employers remain relatively uncommon.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite rapid growth in gender lens investing (GLI), substantial variation remains in how gender lens equity funds (GLEFs) integrate gender equality criteria into investment strategies. We map a universe of 43 GLEFs and develop a framework capturing gender equality screening breadth and accountability depth (fund‐level disclosure and ...
Freyja Vilborg Thorarinsdottir +3 more
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, 2022 Investments in childcare can generate immense economic and social benefits through increased female labor force participation and improved child development outcomes. However, high quality childcare options in Bangladesh are limited and available options are unaffordable for the urban poor ...
Fahmina Rahman Dutta, Kamra, Anmol
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