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The recent federal election could be a game-changer for organizational gender inequality. The proposed Canada-wide child-care strategy could have a profound impact.
A renewed model for oversight and support of all home child-care providers would ensure that our society’s youngest and most vulnerable people have access to safe and higher-quality home child care.
Childcare is central to families being able to sustain working lives. But insufficient government funding and a complex web of for-profit companies means many are losing out
Estimates suggest that every 12 seconds, a child somewhere in the world loses a caregiver to the coronavirus pandemic.
New study finds that workplace hostility toward motherhood in STEM fields can deter even young, childless women from pursuing academic careers.
Australian fatherhood remains closely tied to ‘breadwinning’. History helps us to understand why.
Most kids will be unvaccinated if schools in the two largest states re-open in term 4. There may still be community transmission, but there are measures we can take to shield kids from the virus.
A series of studies shows people taking care of loved ones equate effort with love, making them feel guilty for using a product that reduces that effort.
An early childhood development expert explains why so many preschoolers are kicked out of child care, and what to do if it happens to your child.
We enter this election with eight signed child-care agreements and question marks over the fate of those deals if the Liberal’s gamble on a majority government fails.
Planning outdoor early learning and child care has implications for training and recruiting educators as well as for planning, developing and funding physical spaces.
Child care insecurity has received much less attention than food insecurity, but it is similarly complex. And affordability is only one part of the problem.
Parents with a newborn were doing significantly better on most parental and relational outcomes during lockdown.
Three experts explain a few aspects of American infrastructure that desperately need investment.
Restructuring children’s outdoor play in child care centres into shorter, more frequent bouts helps maximize children’s physical activity.
The idea that children suffer from going to childcare and having mothers who work is outdated nonsense – and the research backs it up.
Despite the disproportionate burden mothers have faced during lockdown, encouraging parents to share child care and housework more equally is almost never suggested as part of the solution.
Beyond addressing key staffing issues, developing high-quality early childhood programs must involve using school boards to expand access and grow spaces while offering more affordable fees.
The need for more child-care and elder-care spots is growing, but the COVID-19 pandemic proves that for-profit facilities are not the answer.
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in Sociology and Co-Director of The Policy Lab, The University of Melbourne
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Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy, American University School of Public Affairs
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Professor of Sociology & Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Former Education Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Professor of Early Childhood, School of Education and Communities, University of East London
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