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Organizing working mother child-care

Description

Organizing working mother child-care involves establishing accessible, reliable, and affordable child-care solutions to support employed mothers. This strategy addresses challenges such as work-life balance, absenteeism, and limited career advancement by coordinating on-site facilities, flexible schedules, and community partnerships. Its practical intent is to ensure children’s well-being and development while enabling mothers to participate fully in the workforce, thereby remedying barriers to gender equality and economic productivity.This information has been generated by artificial intelligence.

Broader

Providing mother/child care
Presentable
Introducing comprehensive child care
Yet to rate
Assisting working mothers
Yet to rate

Narrower

Providing after-school supervision
Yet to rate

Facilitates

Increasing labour flexibility
Excellent
Supporting participation of women in work force
Presentable

Facilitated by

Working from home
Excellent

Problem

Lack of child care for working parents
Presentable
After-school unsupervised children
Presentable
Costly provision of child care facilities for employees
Unpresentable

Value

Care
Yet to rate

Reference

Long, Lynette and Thomas: Handbook for Latch-key Children and Their Parents

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Well-being

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(D) Detailed strategies
Subject
  • Society » Infants
  • Society » Maternity, paternity
  • Health care » Care
Content quality
Yet to rate
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Language
English
1A4N
Q1537
DOCID
12715370
D7NID
204388
Editing link
Official link
https://encyclopedia.uia.org/strategy/organizing-working-mother-child-care
Last update
Dec 3, 2024