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Work and Childcare Arrangements of Families with Young Children: Societal Attitudes toward Maternal Employment and Formal Childcare

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"Promoting the labour market integration of women, and of mothers in particular, is a key objective of labour market and gender equality policy. Decisive factors for mothers’ participation in paid employment include not only labour market conditions and the availability of formal childcare options, but also prevailing attitudes toward family and work. Against this background, the authors examine normative attitudes toward formal childcare arrangements and maternal employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Frodermann, C., Peters, E., Philipp, M. & Wenzig, C. (2026): Arbeits- und Betreuungsarrangements von Familien mit kleinen Kindern: Gesellschaftliche Einstellung zu Erwerbstätigkeit von Müttern und externer Kinderbetreuung. (IAB-Kurzbericht 02/2026), Nürnberg, 8 p. DOI:10.48720/IAB.KB.2602

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