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Why and how working women choose child care: A review with a focus on infancy

EP Pungello… - Developmental Review, 1999 - Elsevier
Over half of mothers of infants in the United States are employed outside the home at least
part-time, and most of these women must arrange for infant child care. Although many
researchers have explored the effects of child care on children's development, less is ...

You can't always get what you want—infant care preferences and use among employed mothers

LA Riley… - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
... In A.Booth (Ed.), Child Care in the 1990s: Trends and Consequences (pp. 42–55). Mahwah ,
NJ : Erlbaum. Pungello, EP, & Kurtz-Costes, B. (1999). Why and how working women choose
child care: A review with a focus on infancy. Developmental Review, 19, 31–96. ...

The effect of child care costs on married women's labor force participation

R Connelly - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1992 - JSTOR
... sample from the third to the fifth interview were selected."1 The sample contains 2,784 women. ...
12 Several studies of the choice of mode of child care have also found that ... The conditional
probability of paying for care given, the mother is employed does increase significantly with ...

Employment of new mothers and child care choice: Differences by children's age

A Leibowitz, JA Klerman… - Journal of Human Resources, 1992 - JSTOR
... We test the hypothesis that the determinants of these outcomes-labor supply and child care
choice-depend on the child's age. In the remainder of this paper, we discuss a model of women's
return to work and, among those who are employed, child care choice. ...

[PDF] Management women and the new facts of life

FN Schwartz - Harvard business review, 1989 - bss.sfsu.edu
... Another result is to place every working woman on a continuum that nms from total dedication ...
A policy that forces women to choose between family and career cuts hugely into profits and ... he
key to managing matemity is to recognize the value of high- performing women and the ...

Child care and our youngest children

D Phillips… - The future of children, 2001 - JSTOR
... of America's Families (see Box 2), which indicate that infants and toddlers with working mothers,
who ... determine whether this surge in infant and toddler child care is due to choice or to ... Researchers
who study variation in the quality of child care now focus on the interactions that ...

Effects of maternal education, women's roles, and child care on child mortality

H Ware - Population and Development Review, 1984 - JSTOR
... to care for their younger siblings if their mothers cannot be profitably employed in farming ... all rural
women work on the farm, but very few married urban women work outside ... Mothers in the
Philippines frequently choose petty trading as an occupation since it interferes relatively ...

Self-employment and providing child care

R Connelly - Demography, 1992 - Springer
... children in conjunction with paid employment, mothers of young children would be more likely
to choose these occupations than women without young ... Furthermore, because the intersection
of the two states-i-being a self-employed child care provider-is expected to ...

Child care in the United States, 1970 to 1995

SL Hofferth… - Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1987 - JSTOR
... at reasonable cost." Recent research evidence (Floge, 1986) suggests that in actuality women
find the child care they need when they are employed, although problems ... availability and data
that would permit analysis of its behavioral effects on child care choice, we cannot ...

The politics of reproduction

F Ginsburg… - Annual Review of Anthropology, 1991 - JSTOR
... From a liberal- individualist perspective, many choice-enhancing developments such as the ... sent
to the Boer War castigated, reeducated, and gave social supports to working-class mothers ... At
the same time, reduced birth rates among educated middle-class women were seen ...

Working Women's Selection of Care for Their Infants: A Prospective Study*

EP Pungello… - Family Relations, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
... In the United States, an estimated 60% of women with children age 1 and under are working ...
Further, of the few studies that have employed prospective designs (eg, NICHD, 1997), most
have not ... We chose to focus on mothers because in the vast majority of families, it is mothers ...

Women and children last: The social situation of divorced mothers and their families

RA Brandwein, CA Brown… - Journal of Marriage and Family, 1974 - JSTOR
... not allowed to run things their own way or to make decisions as they chose, and instead ...
households in- cluded a non-employed adult woman in addi- tion to a working mother" (Hedges ...
The ratio of private household workers to all women workers de- clined from .169 in 1940 to ...

Tax credits, labor supply, and child care

SL Averett, HE Peters… - Review of Economics and …, 1997 - MIT Press
... Higher nonwage income increases the probability of purchasing formal care. Working
Hispanic women are also more likely to choose formal child care modes. ... (1988), who report
that Hispanic women are more likely to pay for home care for infants. ...

Family and individual predictors of child care use by low-income families in different policy contexts

AC Huston, YE Chang… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2002 - Elsevier
... establishing the Child Care Development Fund was “to promote parental choice and to ... child care
studied here was used primarily while parents were employed or participating ... Mothers with
nontraditional attitudes toward childrearing, gender roles, and women's participation in ...

Working parents with young children: cross‐national comparisons of policies and programmes in three countries

SF Allen - International Journal of Social Welfare, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
... in a company for at least one year and the intention to return to that company following the leave
period (Women's Online Media, 2000). Companies are required by law to allow employees with
infants below one year of age to choose either shorter working hours, flexible ...

The'effects' of infant day care reconsidered" reconsidered: Risks for parents, children, and researchers

KA Clarke-Stewart - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1988 - Elsevier
... were home with their infants.There may be as much danger in advocatingthat women not work
as there is in letting them choose for themselves. ... increased likelihoodof developingin tellectualand
social skills sooner.It wouldnot be news to any working motherthat jugglinga ...

The relationship between out-of-home care and the quality of infant-mother attachment in an economically disadvantaged population

BE Vaughn, FL Gove… - Child Development, 1980 - JSTOR
... Infant care for both of the working groups was most frequently provided by an adult female, often
a relative or friend of the infant's ... Some of these women also provided care for other infants
and/or young children. A few of the infants received their care in licensed day-care centers ...

Gender and the development of welfare regimes

J Lewis - Journal of European social policy, 1992 - esp.sagepub.com
... introduction of separate taxation and parental leaves, and by increasing child care provision ... Indeed,
informal care was absent from Titmuss's (1963) classic threefold division of welfare ... In Britain 2.5
million working women are excluded from the contributory social security system ...

Some economic complexities of child care provided by grandmothers

HB Presser - Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1989 - JSTOR
... Child Care by Grandmothers unmarried-or married-women who rely on grandmother care choose
their work ... Unfortunately these suppositions cannot be assessed empirically, since the survey
did not ask the reasons mothers or grandmothers were working particular hours. ...

[BOOK] Who cares for America's children?: child care policy for the 1990s

CD Hayes, JL Palmer… - 1990 - books.google.com
... of the Rand Corporation, a paper on the effects of child care on women's labor force ... The majority
of children now have working mothers, and as a result, child care ... and arrangements that meet
fundamental standards of quality and parents have increased choice in combining ...

Choosing childcare for young children

AS Honig - Handbook of parenting, 2002 - books.google.com
... childcare may reach crisis proportions after an infant is born and the employed adult must ...
Regardless of whether their child attended a preschool, 63% of the women felt that a ... Families
described as “restrictive and stressed” chose less adequate care than families described as ...

Mothers' search for infant child care: the dynamic relationship between availability and desirability in a continental European welfare state

M Vandenbroeck, S De Visscher… - Early Childhood …, 2008 - Elsevier
... et al., 2005] ) should also be taken into account, as well as mothers' working conditions (NICHD ...
Consequently, research using the paradigm of rational choice should be interpreted with caution. ...
On average, women with children below three years of age work 33 h per week, as ...

Effects of maternal employment on the child: A review of the research.

LW Hoffman - Developmental Psychology, 1974 - psycnet.apa.org
... (The highest, by the satisfied homemaker.) Furthermore, the investi- gators considered the motives
for choosing full-time homemaking: Those women who stressed duty as the basis for the choice
had the lowest ... (1962) data suggest that the satisfied working mother may ...

Does the availability of child care influence the employment of mothers? Findings from western Germany

M Kreyenfeld… - Population Research and Policy Review, 2000 - Springer
... Three employment states are distinguished: not working, working part-time, and working full-time. ...
of the number of hours of market work in the first place, but rather a choice between different ... eg,
Pfau-Effinger & Geissler 1992).8 A majority of about two-thirds of the women in our ...

Gender in families: Women and men in marriage, work, and parenthood

L Thompson… - Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1989 - JSTOR
... the 1940s, wage work for women was invisible: the labor force participation of working-class
and ... and out of the labor force, gauge the number of hours they work, and choose what ... The
presence of small children is closely connected with women's re- duced participation in paid ...

Marital status and full–time/part–time work status in child care choices

R Connelly… - Applied Economics, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
... Even if this study had the child care choices of non-employed women, Hotz and Kilburn (1992)
showed that modal choice for the child's enrichment may be very different ... For these analyses
this study chose the hourly expenditure on the primary child care arrangement of ...

Fertility, employment, and child-care costs

DM Blau… - Demography, 1989 - Springer
... Probit equations were used to estimate the probability of working, and the resulting estimates
were used to ... 20 We excluded women over the age of 45 from our sample under the assumption
that ... 21 The large percentage of Hispanics in the sample is due to the choice of specific ...

Can we make time for children? The economy, work schedules, and child care

HB Presser - Demography, 1989 - Springer
... Moreover, most parents do not seem willing to choose more time with children if it means less
family income, even with job ... top panel of Table 1shows that mothers with children under the age
of 14 living at home are working fewer hours and fewer days than other women. ...

Employment and childcare choices in Canada and the United States

C Michalopoulos… - Canadian Journal of …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
... In addition, the taxpayer must be employed, operating her own business, or working on a research
grant to receive the credit. ... Economic theory – and the utility specification shown in equation (1) –
indicates that a subsidy available only to women who choose a particular ...

Review of research on the factors associated with choice and duration of infant feeding in less-developed countries

MR Forman - Pediatrics, 1984 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... and 93% fed their infants tea or sugar and water before initiating breast-feeding on the third
day.43 Although ... the study subjects with those of other women in ... fect of each variable on choice
of infant-feeding practice at birth, after adjustment for all other variables, is unknown, The ...

Modeling the impacts of child care quality on children's preschool cognitive development

GJ Duncan - Child development, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
... We begin with a brief review of the literature and then outline our analytic approach for estimating
child care impacts. ... 1. The unmeasured characteristics will bias estimation to the extent that
unmeasured variables are correlated with both choice of child care quality and ...

The impact of human resource policies on employees

E Galinsky… - Journal of Family Issues, 1990 - jfi.sagepub.com
... as a flexible spending account is unconnected to the estab- lishment of an employee seminar
on choosing child care. ... in the lifestyles of our work force as evidenced by the growing number
of working women, dual-career couples, single parents, and women with young ...

Effects of maternal employment and child-care arrangements on preschoolers' cognitive and behavioral outcomes: Evidence from the Children of the National …

N Baydar… - Developmental Psychology; …, 1991 - psycnet.apa.org
... Entry into the work force and choice of child care are associated with many ... Analyses were
conducted comparing the sociodemographic char- acteristics of women who entered the ... mother
not working in the first year) included the following covariates (unstandardized coefficients ...

Effects of maternal employment in the two-parent family.

LW Hoffman - American Psychologist, 1989 - psycnet.apa.org
... aspects of the traditional sex-role ideology and more likely to believe that women, like men ... fill,
and the data indicate that employed mothers' daughters are more likely to choose their mothers ...
Thus, if the fi~-time employed mothers are strained by the dual role, they might express ...

[CITATION] Issues and directions in preparing professionals to work with young handicapped children and their families

DB Bailey - Policy implementation and PL, 1989 - Paul H. Brookes Baltimore, MD

Public childcare, parental leave, and employment

MK Meyers, JC Gornick… - Gender and welfare state …, 1999 - books.google.com
... mothers of young children were not significantly less likely to be employed than were ... it is possible
that the social, cultural, and economic factors that influenced women's decisions to ... possible that
in countries where mothers of young children tend to choose employment, there ...

Shift work among American women and child care

HB Presser - Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1986 - JSTOR
... For others, however, there was a choice in work hours; it was financial necessity combined with
the fact that the hours of ... women in assessing the determinants of father care when women are
employed non-days, and on part-time working married women in assessing ...

Familial Factors Associated With the Use of Multiple ChildCare Arrangements

TW Morrissey - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
... Finally, children's health influences child-care choice (Leibowitz et al., 1992; Pungello &
Kurtz-Costes, 1999). ... arrangements tend to be part-time, as many informal caregivers are employed
in other ... age children are also more likely to be in multiple child-care arrangements than ...

Workplace support, child care, and turnover intentions among employed mothers of infants

JL Glass… - Journal of Family Issues, 1996 - jfi.sagepub.com
... Workplace Support, Child Care, and Turnover Intentions among Employed Mothers of Infants ...
DeSai & Waite, 1991; Waite, Haggstrom, & Kanouse, 1985), child care responsibilities continue
to ... Investigations of women's job mobility frequently focus on the period immediately ...

Determinants of child care ideals among mothers of preschool-aged children

KO Mason… - Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1989 - JSTOR
... preschool- aged children full-time because of a need to work outside the home, for example,
may choose alter- native ... measure of family/gender ideology is based on the following question:
Regardless of whether they are working outside the home, some women feel that the ...

Nonmaternal care in the first year of life and the security of infant-parent attachment

J Belsky… - Child development, 1988 - JSTOR
... Women's reasons for work- ing were also assessed by asking mothers about financial, personal,
and ... We chose not to 1 Thirteen cases on whom attachment data were available were excluded ...
or because mothers stopped working by 9 months after having been working prior to ...

Mothers' time with infant and time in employment as predictors of mother–child relationships and children's early development

AC Huston… - Child Development, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
... Although it is possible that some employed women were classified inaccurately as nonemployed
if they did ... Some women may have changed employment status before or after the 7-month diary ...
At 6 months, the interaction included both free choice of activities and play with a ...

THE EFFECT OF MATERNAL EMPLOYMENT AND CHILD CARE ON CHILDREN'S COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT*

R Bernal - International Economic Review, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
... In other words, women are forward-looking and know how future wages will be influenced by
the local demand ... If the choice j involves working, then a wage will also be observed. ... If we do not
observe a woman's child care choice in one period, then we do not fully observe her ...

Early child care choices: A theoretical model and research implications

S Seo - Early Child Development and Care, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
... Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Michigan State University. Pungello, E. and
Kurtz-Costes, B. (1999) Why and how working women choose child care: a review
with a focus on infancy, Developmental Review, 19, 31–96. Singer ...

Caring for infants and toddlers: Analysis and recommendations

M Larner, RE Behrman, M Young… - The Future of Children, 2001 - JSTOR
... women and men have equal opportunities in education and employment ... The public in such
countries expects government and business leaders to provide working con- ditions, leave and ...
for childrearing during the first years of life, including leaves for parents who choose to be ...

Parent involvement in child care settings: conceptual and measurement issues

GL Zellman… - Early Child Development and Care, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
... 26. Pungello, E. and Kurtz‐Costes, B. 1999. Why and how working women choose
child care: a review with a focus on infancy. Developmental Review , 19: 31–96.
[CrossRef], [Web of Science ®] View all references). Moreover ...

Child care choices by Italian households

D Del Boca, M Locatelli… - 2004 - papers.ssrn.com
... of hours a facility can remain open limits compatibility with the mother's working hours. ... Stafford
(1992) have investigated the rationing hypothesis, estimating the responsiveness of women's
decisions to ... In families where this view prevails, parents may choose not to use public or ...

Family and child factors related to the use of non-maternal infant care: An English study

K Sylva, A Stein, P Leach, J Barnes… - Early Childhood Research …, 2007 - Elsevier
... In addition to family characteristics, psychological factors also contribute to family choice of child
care. ... unemployed fathers are more likely to obtain work if the mother is working; and second ...
children; (iii) the rise in employment rates has been steepest for women with children ...

Transforming the debate about child care and maternal employment.

LB Silverstein - American Psychologist, 1991 - psycnet.apa.org
... that a specific combination of personal characteristics allows some women to choose to fulfill ...
In reality, however, the heroic working mother is a necessary accommodation to the lack of so ...
a request to document the costs of providing services in a battered women's shelter unless ...

Profiles of choice: Parents' patterns of priority in child care decision-making

J Kim… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2009 - Elsevier
... Women have increased their labor market participation across the socio-economic spectrum;
however ... 8 th grade,” to 13, “MD; DDS; Law/JD/LLB.” Mother's working status at ... of unobserved
classes characterized by their patterns of responses to child care choice factors (Muthén & ...

Mother-infant bonding

DE Eyer - Human Nature, 1994 - Springer
... too, emphasized the importance of bonding in order to enhance their authority, working it into ...
had coopted the rhetoric and style of those advocating reform, offering freedom of "choice"--the
new ... is now often reduced to a ceremonial procedure in which tired women are expected ...

Early child-care selection: Variation by geographic location, maternal characteristics, and family structure.

JD Singer, B Fuller, MK Keiley… - Developmental Psychology …, 1998 - psycnet.apa.org
... 1 Almost 38% of all employed women with at least one child under age 5 work part ... that the effect
of family size differs depending on whether the mother was working during her ... those of the survival
analyses, helping to identify pre- dictors associated with the use of child care. ...

Parental decision making about child care

K Kensinger Rose… - Journal of Family Issues, 2008 - jfi.sagepub.com
... such as rating and ranking characteristics of child care, this study employed conjoint analysis
to ... children (ie, each respondent appointed a focal child) to help parents focus their answers ... chosen
on the basis of their estab- lished importance in the child care choice literature: cost ...

Infant day care: Maligned or malignant?

KA Clarke-Stewart - American Psychologist, 1989 - psycnet.apa.org
... Before labeling the infants of working mothers emotionally insecure, we need to assess their
emotional health in a ... be discussed later, some of these studies included other measures (eg,
aggression) on which day-care children did more poorly; here, the focus is specifically ...

Child-care expenditures and women's employment turnover

DJ Maume Jr - Social Forces, 1991 - sf.oxfordjournals.org
... _.1977. "The Child Care Choice of Working Mothers." Chapter 14 in Five Thousand Families:
Patterns of Economic Progress, edited by Greg Duncan and James Morgan. ... 1985. "The Dynamics
of Child-Care Use and Some Implications for Women's Employment." Journal of ...

Gender liberation, economic squeeze, or fear of strangers: Why fathers provide infant care in dual-earner families

J Glass - Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1998 - JSTOR
... families in which total family income is low and wives' earn- ings are a substantial component
of family income may experience a net gain in current income by choosing father care ... Data The
data come from a longitudinal study of 324 women who were employed at least 20 ...

Child care policies and programs: An international overview

SB Kamerman - Journal of Social Issues, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
... Although parents may choose to have their younger children participate only part of the day ... parent-
ing, or child-rearing leave policies as well as child care services. ... the advanced industrialized
countries provide maternity or parenting leaves to permit working women to recover ...

Fast-track women and the “choice” to stay home

P Stone… - The Annals of the American Academy of …, 2004 - ann.sagepub.com
... Kate Davenport, a public relations executive, said of her experience working for a highly successful,
rapidly growing high ... FAST-TRACK WOMEN AND THE “CHOICE” TO STAY HOME ... The women
in our study were married to men who worked in professional jobs much like their ...

Early day care and the development of school-age children: A review

E Hennessy… - Journal of Reproductive and Infant …, 1991 - Taylor & Francis
... group parents who are being placed under the greatest stress in their attempts to combine
parenthood and working. ... Belsky (1988), in his review of day care research, concluded that there
are links between infant day care and insecure parent-child relationships that ...

Suckling and silence in the USA: The costs and benefits of breastfeeding

J Galtry - Feminist Economics, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
... It is not irrelevant, therefore, that the previously cited “working mothers” (Christoffel et al. 1981)
who claim that women, if they choose, can indeed combine paid work and breastfeeding
and/or pumping breastmilk consist mainly of physicians and pediatricians. ...

Price, quality, and income in child care choice

SL Hofferth… - Journal of Human Resources, 1992 - JSTOR
... In fact, there is a priori evidence that such selection may be working. ... statistical package (LIMDEP)
did not allow us to offer a set of three choices to married women with no ... in selectivity- corrected
models in that the higher the wage the less likely the mother is to choose any mode ...

Women, men, work, and family.

RC Barnett… - American psychologist, 2001 - psycnet.apa.org
... Contrary to those predictions, the husbands who did more child care relative to their wives reported ...
Milkie and Peltola (1999) have argued that women and men can derive a subjective ... Analyzing
data from married, employed Americans in the 1996 General Social Survey, they ...

Parent, infant, and contextual characteristics related to maternal employment decisions in the first year of infancy

BL Volling… - Family Relations, 1993 - JSTOR
... lose more occupational rewards, both financially and professionally, if they were to choose not
to ... well as their occu- pational prestige, were expected to dif- ferentiate those women who would ...
Two groups consisted of working women who had planned to return to work and then ...

Reasons for child care choice and appraisal among low-income mothers

ML Van Horn, SL Ramey, BA Mulvihill… - Child and Youth Care …, 2001 - Springer
... The lack of a working knowledge of child care quality is proposed as an obstacle to children ... The
Child Care Block Grants do not focus on the quality of child care or children's well being; rather
the legislation mandates that states allow parents to choose their child care ...

The working mother in contemporary perspective: A review of the literature

RE Zambrana, M Hurst… - Pediatrics, 1979 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... Furthermore, the mother who works out of choice and not necessity during the first few years
of the child's life is con- sidered not only to have failed her child'2 but also herself. ... attitudes toward
his wife's working. Other expla- nations for women's chosen roles are sought in the ...

Infant feeding practices and growth

KA Dettwyler… - Annual Review of Anthropology, 1992 - JSTOR
... way that we can go from the peasant and working class breastfeeder to the elite, well-educated ...
and both the perceived ability of a mother to feed her child and her choice of infant ... In some cases,
women believe their breast milk is of poor quality, owing to humoral imbalance ...

American child care today.

S Scarr - American Psychologist, 1998 - psycnet.apa.org
... Two thirds of mothers are working to keep their families out of poverty (Scarf, Phillips ... According
to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Gins- burg, "Women will not be truly liberated ... Men's collective
choice of nonparticipation in child care helps to maintain men's privileged position ...

Women's changing work roles: Impact on health, family, and public policy.

KA Matthews… - American Psychologist; American …, 1989 - psycnet.apa.org
... with the age of their youngest child, with many mothers of young children choosing part-time ... Given
the striking increases in numbers of women with young children entering the labor force ...
1402–1409) reviews the effects of employment on working mothers and their families. ...

Women in management worldwide

NJ Adler - International Studies of Management & Organization, 1986 - JSTOR
... 2.7 percent of the working women held administrative ... Social pressures in Philippine society, in
which both men and women frequently support strongly differentiated sex role stereo- types, make
it difficult for a Filipina to choose a career instead of a family or to combine marriage ...

Entrepreneurship: not an easy path to top management for women

J Winn - Women in Management Review, 2004 - emeraldinsight.com
... and control that is perceived to be compatible with their role in child-rearing. ... Cromie, S. (1987),
"Similarities and differences between women and men who choose business proprietorship ...
Dickinson, T. (1998), "Working women and their world: the new global work hierarchy and ...

Teasing apart the child care conundrum: A factorial survey analysis of perceptions of child care quality, fair market price and willingness to pay by low-income, African …

AB Shlay, H Tran, M Weinraub… - Early Childhood Research …, 2005 - Elsevier
... be a quality child care situation from their vantage point as busy, working, and economically ... The
literature review included work from the fields of sociology, psychology, economics, and ... child
care preferences (Johansen et al., 1996; Meyers, 1993), child care choice (Anderson & ...

[HTML] Rates, barriers and outcomes of HIV serostatus disclosure among women in developing countries: implications for prevention of mother-to-child transmission …

A Medley, C Garcia-Moreno… - Bulletin of the World …, 2004 - SciELO Public Health
... Working in Kenya, Galliard and colleagues found that 76.1% of the HIV-positive pregnant ... the
rates of disclosure found that between 16.7% and 86% of women choose not to ... HIV transmission
to potential mothers; the reduction of unintended pregnancies among women and girls ...

The home–daycare link: mapping children's new world order

N Shpancer - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2002 - Elsevier
... Caplan, Hennessy, & Moss, 1993), as certain families are more likely to choose, or be ... evaluations
of parents may be partly rooted in the caregivers' attitudes toward working mothers. ... reported that
24% of caregivers surveyed in the large scale National Child Care Staffing Study ...

Staff development A key issue in meeting the needs of young handicapped children in day care settings

N Klein… - Topics in Early Childhood Special …, 1987 - tec.sagepub.com
... in an increased demand for child care outside the home (National Commission on Working
Women, 1985). ... an unlikely assumption) or one can assume that the actual number of working
mothers of ... Given the most current data, we choose to support the latter assumption and we ...

Infant care decisions and attachment security: The Canadian< em> Transition to Child Care Study</em>.

MK McKim, KM Cramer, B Stuart… - Canadian Journal of …, 1999 - psycnet.apa.org
... Women who prefer to work but stay home experience more stress and are more depressed than ...
who prefer to care for their child at home but are working feel more ... The relation between infant
characteristics or parent-child interaction patterns and child care choice and develop ...

Taking Care of Our Daughters, a book review of Martha Fineman, The Neutered Mother, The Sexual Family and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies

KK Baker - Cardozo Law Review, 1997 - works.bepress.com
... Single women are choosing to have children over remaining single even when they have to go
to ... 37 The average American woman spends 11 1/2 years of her working life caretaking. ... 24, 1989,
at HI; Carol Kleiman, Child Care a Key Cause of Women Leaving HeinOnline — 18 ...

[BOOK] Power and emotion in infant-toddler day care

RL Leavitt - 1994 - books.google.com
... This review provides a background for the reader unfamiliar with the research literature and points ...
The child care debate becomes a battleground that pits mothers against their children. ... have
shaped concerns in terms of the effects of more and more women working outside the ...

Child care before 6 months of age: a qualitative study of mothers' decisions and feelings about employment and non‐maternal care

P Leach, J Barnes, M Nichols… - Infant and Child …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
... Employment of women while their children are infants has increased in the UK in the last decade ...
in child care has been reflected in a large body of research addressing working parents' choices ...
chosen care to match her own views, but if circumstances led her to choose a non ...

… over the past 40 or 50 years have led to work being a critically important part of most women's lives and, thus, a criti-cally important focus for career psychology and …

NE Betz - Career development and counseling: Putting theory …, 2005 - books.google.com
... paid careers and are making sub- stantially less money than men, even when employed full time. ...
that college students as- sumed that men were majoring in engineering and women in nursing ...
Children are susceptible to these stereotypes and begin to use them to guide choice. ...

Maternal employment and child cognitive outcomes in the first three years of life: The NICHD study of early child care

J Brooks–Gunn, WJ Han… - Child Development, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
... variables were created for mothers' contemporaneous employ- ment at 15, 24, and 36 months
(each coded as 1 if the mother was working at the time of ... Selection bias is a concern in estimating
the effects of early maternal employment, because women who choose to work ...

Using kin for child care: Embedment in the socioeconomic networks of extended families

L Uttal - Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1999 - JSTOR
... Neither of the other two Mexican American mothers viewed relative care as the best choice, even
though their children had never been in any other kind of care. ... Working class Anglo American
women were just as likely to in- dicate that it was inappropriate to call upon ...

Child care and women's return to work after childbirth

JA Klerman… - The American Economic Review, 1990 - JSTOR
... Average child care wages are positively re- lated to the probability of working in all four equations. ...
are also important for returns to work shortly after childbirth, particularly, for the choice of child ...
Indeed, women report that care by a relative is their preferred type of child care for ...

Barriers and facilitators for breastfeeding among working women in the United States

ML Johnston… - Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
... Comfort or breastfeeding skill was a factor in a study of 1,488 survey respondents in which
researchers found that working women breastfed longer if they had breastfed a previous child
(Fein & ... Mothers without prior experience may choose to avoid anticipated difficulty. ...

Women's employment during pregnancy and after the first birth: Occupational characteristics and work commitment

S Desai… - American Sociological Review, 1991 - JSTOR
... This relationship may be weakened by constraints on women's occupational choice, like actions
of ... Hence, women who are employed in occupations that are not physically taxing and require
less ... for performance of job du- ties may find it easier to continue working during late ...

Infant care in England: mothers' aspirations, experiences, satisfaction and caregiver relationships

…, Families, Children and Child Care team 1 - Early Child …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
... Why and how working women choose child care: a review with a focus on infancy.
Developmental Review , 19: 31–96. ... Why and how working women choose child care:
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CHILD CARE USE BY LOW‐INCOME FAMILIES IN RURAL AREAS

SK Walker… - Journal of Children and Poverty, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
... Whitebrook M Phillips D 1999 Child care employment: Implications for women's self‐sufficiency
and for child development Working paper series. ... Yet research indicates that women who choose
home‐based child care employment for personal rather than professional ...

The impact of grandparental proximity on maternal childcare in China

F Chen, SE Short… - Population Research and Policy Review, 2000 - Springer
... Working part-time was generally impossible, therefore, eliminating a key strategy used by women
in ... asked as part of a questionnaire administered to ever-married women under age 49. ... on maternal
time are driven more by grandmothers' childcare inputs, we choose to measure ...

Somali refugee women speak out about their needs for care during pregnancy and delivery

N Herrel, L Olevitch, DK DuBois… - … & Women's Health, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
... “ Another also pointed out,. “[I choose] 'Education for ... Childbirth education materials for Somali
women should cover ... St. Paul (MN): Pioneer Press, 2000. 3 Heitritter DL. Somali family strength:
Working in the community. Minneapolis (MN): Family and Children's Service, 1999. ...

Gender wars: selfless women in the republic of choice

J Williams - NYUL Rev., 1991 - HeinOnline
... We do not, of course speak of "working fathers" because we assume fathers are employed. ... For
a discussion of the relevant work by historians of women, see Kerber, supra note 25. ... relationships
naturally do so at the cost of status and power and adults who choose to pursue ...

Joint labor supply and childcare choice decisions of married mothers

LM Powell - Journal of Human Resources, 2002 - JSTOR
... The estimation sample for this paper is defined to include married women with spouse present
whose ... Families with working mothers who use care by a relative are more likely to have ... equations
accounts for the possi- bility that those mothers who work and choose a particular ...

Interdependence of child care resources and the progress of women in society

CY Nakamura, SJ McCarthy… - … of Women Quarterly, 1982 - pwq.sagepub.com
... At least two components will be essential to viable and effectz-ue child care servicesrost and
choice of services by ... Pifer, A. Women working: Toward a new society ... Robins, PK, & Spiegelman,
RG Substitution among child care modes and the effect of a child care subsidy program ...

Studying the effects of early child care experiences on the development of children of color in the United States: Toward a more inclusive research agenda

DJ Johnson, E Jaeger, SM Randolph… - Child …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
... 1960s. Thus, child care in centers was not widely available to African American
mothers or other working mothers of color until after that time (Cahan, 1989). ...
are open to women of color and why they choose them. A ...

The family responsive workplace

JL Glass… - Annual review of sociology, 1997 - JSTOR
... tion, such as flextime, part-time work, or parental leave, was their top choice toward improving
the ... we have telecommuting,' what they mean is, 'We have an in- dividual working here who ... instead
of employees having to cut deals." Miller (1992) reports that women in professional ...

Biases in research on reproduction and women's work

M JOFFE - International journal of epidemiology, 1985 - IEA
... not essential that the threshold age be known, although such information if available would
improve the choice of age ... In the proposed method of bias avoidance, no assumptions need be
made as to whether working is or is not considered normal for young women, or about ...

Women's employment and child care in Brazil

R Connelly, DS DeGraff… - Economic development and cultural …, 1996 - JSTOR
... aged 13 or older-"mother sub- stitutes"-increases the probability that the mother will be employed. ...
Each of these studies of child care and women's labor force partic- ipation implicitly assumes
that ... Families choose between various types of formal (paid) care and informal care. ...

Exploring women's development: Implications for career theory, practice, and research

JV Gallos - Handbook of career theory, 1989 - books.google.com
... and business press (eg, Wall Street Journal, 1986; Boston Globe, September 1986; Working
Woman, 1986). ... Rather these choices are still framed as women" cut- ting back on career,""
dropping off the career path during child-bearing years," " choosing motherhood vs. ...

Of patriarchy born: The political economy of fertility decisions

N Folbre - Feminist Studies, 1983 - JSTOR
... until only a few decades ago, parents in China held property rights in children."26 Janet Salaff's
recent monograph on working daughters in ... Coercive pronatalism can also take the form of
economic ine- qualities that impose severe penalties on women who choose not to ...

Neighborhood characteristics, and child care type and quality

M Burchinal, L Nelson, M Carlson… - Early Education and …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
... Why and how working women choose child care: A review with a focus on infancy..
Developmental Review , 19: 31–96. ... Why and how working women choose child care:
A review with a focus on infancy.. Developmental Review , 19: 31–96. ...

Fathers' birth attendance, early contact, and extended contact with their newborns: A critical review

R Palkovitz - Child Development, 1985 - JSTOR
... & Austin, 1982) have reported difficulty in ob- taining samples of fathers choosing not to ... May's
(1982) report that some men find it difficult to handle health care providers' subtle ... be- liefs indicate
that birth attendance and "bond- ing" positively influence father-child relation- ships. ...

Maternal employment and child care.

KH Dunlop - Professional Psychology, 1981 - psycnet.apa.org
... Page 6. 2. THE FAMILY, SEX ROLES, AND EQUALITY: MATERNAL EMPLOYMENT of that
obligation if they must, or choose, to enter the labor force. ... In JM Kreps (Ed.), Women and the
American economy: A look to the WSO's. ... Moore, SG Working mothers and their children. ...

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