While the benefits of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services to better learning are now widely acknowledged, a widespread and accessible provision for these services also helps support gender equality in the workforce. In particular, the availability, intensity, reliability and affordability of ECEC play an important role in engaging…

This report briefly describes child care facilities and policies in Sweden, Israel, and France. The report represents the impressions of 24 labor union women who visited these countries in an attempt to formulate a policy for government supported comprehensive child care in the United States. The labor union representatives were participants in a…

Reviews recent trends in female employment and preschool provision in the United States and Europe, discussing how governments have responded to the issues. "Nation as context," a type of cross-national research, is developed by comparing and contrasting child care and early education systems in Germany, France, and the United States.…