Supporting the Employment of Mothers: Policy Variation Across Fourteen Welfare States
- 1 February 1997
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of European Social Policy
- Vol. 7 (1) , 45-70
- https://doi.org/10.1177/095892879700700103
Abstract
This article compares 14 OECD countries, as of the middle-to-late 1980s, with respect to their provision of policies that support moth ers' employment: parental leave, child care, and the scheduling of public education. Newly gathered data on 18 policy indicators are pre sented. The indicators are then standardized, weighted, and summed into indices. By differ entiating policies that affect maternal employ ment from family policies more generally, these indices reveal dramatic cross-national differences in policy provisions.Keywords
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