Canadian research and reports about women and ECEC

Think child care is no longer a women's issue? [1]
By Martha Friendly and Shani Halfon
SOURCE: Childcare Resource and Research Unit, 6 Mar 13

News flash: Mothers still need child care - straight from the horse's mouth [2]
By Friendly, Martha
SOURCE: Childcare Resource and Research Unit, 23 Jun 2011

Educated, employed and equal: The economic prosperity case for national child care [3]
SOURCE: YWCA Canada, 7 Mar 2011

"I should have applied before I was pregnant": How child care in Toronto fails mothers [4]
SOURCE: Mothers' Task Force on Child Care, 17 Jun 2011

National child care often promised, still missing [5]
By Friendly, Martha
SOURCE: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 11 Oct 2010

Tackling women's and children's poverty- Early learning and care services are part of the solution [6]
By Prentice, Susan
SOURCE: Childcare Coalition of Manitoba, 4 Dec 2009

No lifeline for women and children in today's budget? [7]
by Friendly, Martha
SOURCE Childcare Resource and Research Unit, 27 Jan 09

Child care policy and the labor supply of mothers with young children: A natural experiment from Canada [8]
by Lefebvre, Pierre & Merrigan, Philip
SOURCE: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, vol. 26, no. 3

Why Canada can't work without good childcare: How early childhood education and care supports the economy [9]
By Friendly, Martha
SOURCE: Childcare Resource and Research Unit, Sep 2008

Caring about employability [10]
SOURCE: Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada, 31 Oct 06

It was twenty years ago today...March 8, 1986 [11]
CRRU Briefing Note by Martha Friendly
SOURCE Childcare Resource and Research Unit, 8 Mar 06

The OECD and the reconciliation agenda: Competing blueprints [12]
By Mahon, Rianne
SOURCE: Childcare Resource and Research Unit, 2005

Women, equality & social programs: The vital connection [13]
By Day, Shelagh
SOURCE: Poverty and Human Rights Project, 19 Jan 2005

New realities of earning and caring [14]
By Jenson, Jane
SOURCE: Canadian Policy Research Network, 29 Oct 04

Voices: Women, poverty and homelessness in Canada [15]
SOURCE: National Anti-Poverty Organization, 1 May 04

Women in non-standard jobs: The public policy challenge [16]
By Townson, Monica
SOURCE: Status of Women Canada, April 03
Also available in French. [17]

Living beyond the edge: The impact of trends in non-standard work on single/lone-parent mothers [18]
By Stephenson, Marylee and Emery, Ruth
SOURCE: Status of Women Canada, 16 Oct 2003

Feminist perspectives on social inclusion and children's well-being [19]
by Luxton, Meg
SOURCE: Laidlaw Foundation, June 02

The framing of poverty as 'child poverty' and its implications for women [20]
by Wiegers, Wanda
SOURCE: Status of Women Canada, June 2002
Also available in French. [21]

Social policy, gender inequality and poverty [22]
By Davies, Lorraine; McMullin, Julie Ann; Avison, William & Cassidy, Gale
SOURCE: Status of Women Canada, February 2002 / In html and pdf.
Also available in French. [23]

Stacking the deck: The relationship between reliable child care and lone mothers' attachment to the labour force [24]
By Mason, Robin
SOURCE: Campaign 2000, May 2001

Mothers as earners, mothers as carers: Responsibility for children, social policy and the tax system [25]
By Freiler, Christa; Stairs, Felicite and Kitchen, Brigitte with Cerny, Judy
SOURCE: Status of Women Canada, February 2001 / In html and pdf.
Also available in French. [26]

Women, citizenship and Canadian child care policy in the 1990s [27]
by Tyyskä, Vappu
SOURCE: Childcare Resource and Research Unit, March 2001

Women's support, women's work: Child care in an era of deficit reduction, devolution, downsizing and deregulation [28]
by Doherty, Gillian; Friendly, Martha & Oloman, Mab
SOURCE: Status of Women Canada, March 1998 / In html and pdf.
Also available in French. [29]