Among provinces, Ontario is the least generous supporter of its childhood educator workforce. Parents pay the price in available child-care spaces if a staffing recruitment crisis does not improve.
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The lack of reform to childcare - a huge cost-of-living pressure - is the biggest missed opportunity of the week.
We must meaningfully include newcomers and refugees in the formulation of policies that address structural constraints that affect them during times of crisis.
When early childhood education providers become more entrepreneurial, the quality of their programs improves, research shows.
Sen. Manchin effectively killed one of Biden’s key economic priorities by withdrawing his support from the $2 trillion bill.
A new study shows how migrant families struggle to get the childcare they need and how an easier visa system would help.
The recent federal election could be a game-changer for organizational gender inequality. The proposed Canada-wide child-care strategy could have a profound impact.
A renewed model for oversight and support of all home child-care providers would ensure that our society’s youngest and most vulnerable people have access to safe and higher-quality home child care.
Childcare is central to families being able to sustain working lives. But insufficient government funding and a complex web of for-profit companies means many are losing out
Estimates suggest that every 12 seconds, a child somewhere in the world loses a caregiver to the coronavirus pandemic.
New study finds that workplace hostility toward motherhood in STEM fields can deter even young, childless women from pursuing academic careers.
Australian fatherhood remains closely tied to ‘breadwinning’. History helps us to understand why.
Most kids will be unvaccinated if schools in the two largest states re-open in term 4. There may still be community transmission, but there are measures we can take to shield kids from the virus.
A series of studies shows people taking care of loved ones equate effort with love, making them feel guilty for using a product that reduces that effort.
An early childhood development expert explains why so many preschoolers are kicked out of child care, and what to do if it happens to your child.
We enter this election with eight signed child-care agreements and question marks over the fate of those deals if the Liberal’s gamble on a majority government fails.
Planning outdoor early learning and child care has implications for training and recruiting educators as well as for planning, developing and funding physical spaces.
Child care insecurity has received much less attention than food insecurity, but it is similarly complex. And affordability is only one part of the problem.
Parents with a newborn were doing significantly better on most parental and relational outcomes during lockdown.
Three experts explain a few aspects of American infrastructure that desperately need investment.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Fellow in Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Professor of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto
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Assistant Researcher, Perlman Lab, Ontario Institute for the Studies of Education, University of Toronto
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Professor and Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development at Ontario Institute for the Study of Education (OISE) and Executive Director at the Atkinson Centre, University of Toronto
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Research Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor, Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, Podcast at MissPerceived, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Political Economy; Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusion at Work; and, co-convenor Work + Family Policy Roundtable, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, POLIS@ANU Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Professor of Public Administration and Policy, American University School of Public Affairs
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Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, University of Toronto