… and ensuring better work-life balance, including access to childcare (ESF+ regulation, Article 4). It explicitly calls … a better work/life balance including access to childcare, a healthy and well–adapted working environment … amongst others, improved work/life balance and access to childcare. The ESF + should also aim to provide a healthy and …
… at 10 %. The availability and affordability of formal childcare services are similarly important factors, as Member States with a higher provision of formal childcare for children below 3 years of age also had greater … identified this reason). Where the availability of formal childcare services is low and work—life balance policies are …
… especially in Member States with limited or unaffordable childcare provision (e.g. UK, DE). As noted in Section 9.4, … of men, underlining how the gendered nature of informal childcare disproportionately impacts women’s employment. The … care of children at home, is a deterrent to using formal childcare and to either remaining in or re-entering the …
… Equally shared or not, childcare is a key dimension of gender equality Family … and a father. This has had a significant impact on childcare at a time when extended family members, such as … which has led to parents needing more and varied childcare services, has put pressure on public policies and …
… financing, eligibility rules and coordination with childcare services. These all impact the behaviour of women … to be very low (Blum et al., 2018; Karu & Tremblay, 2018). Childcare services are not available when childcare leave ends Among EU Member States, the types of …
… living in a couple with children do at least 1 hour of childcare work per day, this only holds true for 67 % of men. … This partially explains that while 76 % of lone mothers do childcare work every day, only 38 % of lone fathers do …