Child Care Initiative Literature Review

This resource reviews literature on the topic of women, work and child care provision with a focus on the following areas:

• to provide a review of the main conceptual issues which have underpinned child care as a policy issue;
• to collect the available empirical evidence which links women’s earnings to child care;
• to analyse the place of women’s employment within dominant discourses around care policy, and conversely, to analyse the place of child care in relation to women’s economic empowerment discourses; and finally
• to highlight positive policy practices in relation to child care provision from around the globe.