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ECEC and Canadian women in the paid labour forceIn Canada, the labour force participation rates of women with children have risen dramatically over the last 25 years. In 2001, 73.4% of mothers with the youngest child aged 3-5 years were employed. These working mothers face a double workload in society as they face the difficult challenge of balancing work and family responsibilities. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948) proclaims that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” In 1979, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) – an international agreement which Canada ratified. As a signatory to CEDAW, Canada pledges “to ensure the equal right of men and women to enjoy all economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights”. Access to available, high quality ECEC is critical to eliminate the barriers faced by women who choose or must exercise their right to paid employment and to achieving full economic and social security. Access to ECEC is additionally critical for low-income women to overcome poverty and isolation. The 1984 Royal Commission on Equality in Employment said that, “child care is the ramp that provides equal access to the workforce of mothers”. This Issue File collects selected online readings that recognize the importance of accessible and affordable ECEC to women’s economic equality and to fully engaging in society. This Issue File is organized into four sections. Use the links to your right to view:
This list in not intended to be exhaustive examination of this topic; for a more comprehensive list, search the Childcare Resource and Research Unit resource library catalogue Childcare Information Resource Collection (CIRC).
Women
in Canada: Work chapter updates 2003 Women
in Canada: Work chapter updates 2002 Work-life
compendium 2001: 150 Canadian statistics on work, family and well-being
A decade
of challenges, a decade of choices Women,
power and politics Women
in non-standard jobs: The public policy challenge Trudeau,
women and the mystic north The
framing of poverty as 'child poverty' and its implications for women Social
policy, gender inequality and poverty Stacking
the deck: The relationship between reliable child care and lone mothers'
attachment to the labour force Women,
citizenship and Canadian child care policy in the 1990s Driven
apart: Women's employment equality and child care in Canadian public policy Women’s
support, women’s work: Child care in an era of deficit reduction,
devolution, downsizing and deregulation
(Print resources are available in CRRU’s resource library. Contact CRRU for more information.) Child care policy at the crossroads: Gender and welfare state
restructuring Who cares? Women’s work, childcare and welfare state redesign Child care, women’s labour market participation and labour
market policy effectiveness in Canada The never-ending story: The struggle for universal child care
policy in the 1970s “Both wage earner and mother”: Women’s organizing
and childcare policy in Sweden and Canada Still struggling for better child care: The labour movement and
the child care movement in Canada Royal Commission as sites of resistance: Women’s challenges
on child care in the Royal Commission on the Status of Women Equality in employment: A Royal Commission report
Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action United
Nations Division for the Advancement of Women |
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